Financial Crimes: A Threat to Global Security

573 Pages·2012·2.81 MB·English

by  Maximillian Edelbacher

Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series
Series Editor : Dilip K. Das
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Financial Crimes
A Threat to
Global Security
Edited by
Maximillian Edelbacher
Peter Kratcoski
Michael Theil
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Financial Crimes Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Section I
NEW SECURITY CONCEPTS
PETER C. KRATCOSKI
1 Changing Concepts of Security: The Preventive Turn in
Defensive Design
GÜNTER STUMMVOLL
2 History of Crisis and the Quest for Security
GERALD SCHÖPFER
3 Development toward a “Security Society”: The Case of Austria
MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND GILBERT NORDEN
4 The Concept of Security in the European Union
ALEXANDER SIEDSCHLAG
5 Human Security and the United Nations Security Council
WALTHER LICHEM
Section II
FINANCIAL CRIMES: A GLOBAL THREAT
MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL
6 White Collar Crime
MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL
7 Cyber Crime and Economic Crime
ALEXANDER SEGER
8 Organized Crime, the Mafia, White Collar Crime, and
Corruption
ARIJE ANTINORI
9 Rule of Law versus Financial Crime
BOJAN DOBOVŠEK
10 The Financial Crisis and the Haphazard Pursuit of Financial
Crime
ROMAN TOMASIC
11 Fighting Corruption: The Role of the Media in the Broader
Global Context
ANTHONY MILLS
12 Financial Crisis or Financial Crime?: Competence and
Corruption
WOLFGANG HETZER
Section III
PREVENTING ANOTHER FINANCIAL CRISIS: ROLES OF
CONTROL MECHANISMS
MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL
13 Dealing with Insurance: What Can Be Learned
MICHAEL THEIL
14 Police Detectives and Investigative Reporters Working Hand in
Hand against Organized Crime
BOJAN DOBOVŠEK AND MATIJA MASTNAK
15 Human Factors Analysis: How to Build Resilience against
Financial Crimes
CHRISTIAN FELSENREICH
16 Stronger Oversight of the Financial Sector: Lessons from
Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
KATHARINA NOUSSI
17 Business Angels: Can They Help to Prevent Another Financial
Crisis?
CLEMENS FATH
18 Legislative and Programming Initiatives to Prevent and
Control Financial Crimes in the United States
PETER C. KRATCOSKI
19 Financial Crime: Past, Present, and Future
MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER, MICHAEL THEIL, AND PETER C. KRATCOSKI
Epilogue
Index
Call for Authors