The Journal of Economic Criminology aims to facilitate discussion among different academic disciplines and practice areas on how people should work together to better understand and address economic crime problems. In this editorial to the very first volume of the journal, Editors in Chief...

The lack of understanding of the boundaries of economic criminology and the little agreement on the kind of offenses or deviant acts that fall in its substantive focus have invited an evaluation of the characteristics that criminals and/or crimes have to own in order to qualify as "economic...

This article has two main objectives. First, to interrogate the concept and/or conception of "economic crime" (framed as a singular thing). We argue that current policy, and subsequently, social scientific (or criminological more specifically) framings, tend to arbitrarily 'carve up' the objects...

Food crimes, including adulteration, poisoning, mislabelling, and misrepresentation of information, have cost billions in the global food industry. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses of the food supply chain. Unfortunately, such weaknesses are exploited by actors...

In mediated environments, a simple but important understanding holds true: there is plenty of communication without crime, yet no crime without communication. Put differently, the criminal act in technology-mediated environments is always concurrently a communicative act. Nevertheless,...

Half of all finance and insurance firms in Norway report that they are exposed to economic crime, particularly fraud, every year. On the other hand, only eighteen percent in public administration and defense perceive similar exposure to economic crime. However, the estimated fraction of...

Online sextortion is an organised form of blackmail which can have a serious financial and traumatic impact on its victims. Responding to a dearth of evidence about this crime, this study analyses patterns within a large dataset of over 23,000 anonymous victim reports, collected via an online...

This paper explores the police response given to rogue trading doorstep crime incidents. Using a mixed-methods Applied Thematic Analysis of a year's records of the Thames Valley Police force's crime recording database, the research draws upon police officers' own accounts to illustrate the way...

The article deals with economic environmental crime, i.e. those illegal attacks on the environment that are perceived as the most serious. Using the example of the Czech Republic, a post-communist state in Eastern Europe that joined the European Union, the main problems associated with its...

Across the world each year millions of people are victimised by online crime, many of whom fall victim to online fraud. One of the most enduring and prolific types of online fraud is romance fraud. Romance fraud often leads to financial and psychological devastation of those who are victimised....