This paper aims to examine the influence of controlling corruption, tax burden reduction, price stability and trade liberalization on trade-related illicit financial flows. The analysis focuses on a sample of 120 developing and emerging countries, drawn from data collected over the period...

This paper presents a meticulous bibliometric analysis of forensic accounting research conducted between 1991 and 2021, employing Scopus and VOSviewer. With a dataset comprising 232 documents, the study aims to scrutinize existing literature, identify influential authors, and discern the...

This scoping review systematically examines the definitions, challenges, and methodologies for estimating the illegal gambling market, spanning literature from 2000 to 2023. Given the clandestine nature of illegal gambling and its significant economic and social implications, understanding its...

This article examines the dynamics of relation fraud resulting in the murder of a grandparent by her grandson. While such instances are admittedly rare as forms of both murder and fraud more generally, this unique case nonetheless demonstrates that relation fraud resulting in murder is a...

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 paper sets out the case for economic criminology. It argues 'economic criminology' is more than just a prefix that brings scholars and papers together exploring economic crime. The paper argues that crimes associated with economic criminology are a significant societal problem that deserves...

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...

Corruption in finance is a relatively new topic which is gathering researcher's attention because of the increase in frauds and alike activities in the financial sector. The main aim of this article is to aid researchers to understand the overall trends, shifts and structure of corruption in...