Fraud and corruption are profit motivated crimes. This paper examines how proceeds are generated from these crimes, where those proceeds can be hidden, how those proceeds can be found and most importantly, recovered.

This article aims to discuss the different conceptions currently surrounding the fight against corruption. The main question to be answered is whether or not there is a formula for combating corruption? Given its complexity, the article breaks down some of the most common understandings of the...

Credit Scoring models are statistical applications used by financial institutions to classify applicants as to the possibility of becoming defaulters. This work aims to bring that good experience from the private sector to the governmental context, seeking to adapt it and test its performance in...

This paper attempts to propose a criterion for recognition of economic and financial crime. Some aspects of contact and gap between this reality and organized crime are focused, wherein the crime of corruption is assumed as the typological figure of confluence between those two realities. We try...

This paper focused on political corruption in Serbia in area of political party funding. In the first chapter are described various forms of political corruption regarding party funding and their peculiarities in post-transitional countries. Legislative, institutional and social anti corruption...

In confronting the financial aspect of crime, states place increasing reliance on civil, in contrast to criminal, legal processes. Sometimes called non-conviction based approaches, civil devices greatly facilitate the assault on finance since they operate in accordance with conventional civil...

In this paper, we present a study of lay people’s opinions on grand and petty corruption. The study was conducted with young and older adults by means of a questionnaire made up of open and closed items. Results show that, for our respondents, grand corruption is associated with the...

The first question that always comes up when talking about money laundering is: – How is money laundered? Of course that since money laundering is a rather complex and dynamic process, the answer is not easy or one only. The most common way of approaching this issue is through the known and...

Intervention devant la commission spéciale du parlement européen sur « la criminalité organisée, la corruption et le blanchiment de capitaux » (CRIM), le 19 juin 2012 à 11h00.

There are very few (published) accounts of editorial misconduct, and those that do exist are almost exclusively focused on medicine-related areas. In the present article we detail a case of alleged editorial misconduct in a rather underexplored domain, the social sciences. We provide the facts,...