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The module will offer a rich and interdisciplinary introduction to economic crime, its social, environmental and individual enablers, including emerging technologies, as well as to the national and international policy, regulatory and enforcement frameworks to counter it. A comparative and international approach will be adopted to compare problems and solutions in different countries and international organisations, so as to encourage a global perspective on the phenomenon.

The module will be organised in three main parts. The first will be dedicated to the introduction and discussion of the fundamental definitions, concepts and theories of economic crime. This part of the module will also cover some of the most relevant and impactful criminological studies and theories on economic crime 鈥� such as Sutherland鈥檚 work on white collar crime 鈥� and how our understanding of economic crime has evolved in time (the 鈥減ast鈥� of economic crime, as suggested by the title). This part will also provide an overview of the main regulatory and policy frameworks and strategies developed at a national and international level to address economic crime. Such frameworks will include not only traditional criminal justice and crime prevention, but also alternative frameworks such as collaborative enforcement models including deferred prosecution agreements and other negotiated settlements, corporate policing, ethics and compliance, victim empowerment techniques, and broader responsibilisation strategies.

The second part of the module will focus on specific economic crimes, such as fraud, corruption, money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion as well as on more specific legal structures and issues (the 鈥減resent鈥� of economic crime). This part will combine crime analysis, legal analysis and various criminological approaches to the causes of crime (e.g. anomie, strain, rational choice etc). The purpose of this interdisciplinary approach is to highlight potential discrepancies between criminological constructs and theories and relevant legal frameworks. To do so, we will consider not only the provisions of UK criminal law, but also the criminal law of other jurisdictions, as well as relevant international conventions, such as the UN Convention against Corruption, the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime or the Council of Europe鈥檚 Convention on Cybercrime. This part will rely on recent and topical case studies, such as Bernie Madoff, Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, and the Australian banking scandal.

The final part of the module will look at the 鈥渇uture鈥� of economic crime by exploring, also with the support of findings from research conducted at the Dawes Centre for Future Crime, how current social and technological developments, such as Brexit, globalisation, climate technologies, cryptocurrencies, and physical-virtual environments such as the metaverse, might change economic crime in the future and present new challenges and threats. This part will also consider possible policy and legal countermeasures to address specific criminal threats as well as broader strategies and techniques to future-proof policy and regulation.