the inherent susceptibility of the food sector to being exploited to launder illicit funds and as a predicate crime for … and food crime to identify a knowledge gap highlighting the dual role of the food sector, both to launder illicit funds … and as a predicate crime generating such funds. It adopts a viewpoint approach by considering the factors identified in …

This open access book examines the magnitude, causes of, and reactions to white-collar crime, based on the theories and … research of those who have uncovered various forms of white-collar crime. It argues that the offenders who are convicted … represent only ‘the tip of the iceberg’ of a much greater problem: because white-collar crime is forced to compete with other …

Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …

While assessing the economic impacts of corruption, the corruption-related transmission channels which influence … impacts corruption has on the size of the shadow economy as well as on the individual sources of long-term economic growth …, making use of a transmission channel through which corruption affects the tax burden components. Using the method of an …