Nicholas Lord
Nicholas Lord is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Manchester and has research interests in white-collar and corporate crimes of a financial and economic nature such as fraud, corruption and bribery.
Address: School of Law
University of Manchester
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Manchester
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United Kingdom
Address: School of Law
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
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Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions that exist within and between the nation-states of Europe, and within the institutions of the European region.
This European voice provides an original contribution to discourses surrounding a form of crime which is underrepresented in current criminological literature.
Papers by Nicholas Lord
existence of sufficient and appropriately deployed assets. Mindful of this, and of the misuse of both
public and private wealth, UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.4 (SDG 16.4) seeks to
“...significantly reduce illicit financial … flows.” This chapter critiques how this aim of SDG 16.4 has
been operationalised. We argue that the choice and placement of the term “illicit” is crucial: it can
relate to the finances, the flows, or both, as well as to the people involved, as facilitators or
protagonists, and is expansive enough to encompass criminal, unlawful, and ostensibly legal but
illegitimate or harmful assets, acts, and actors. Moreover, this chapter explores why the movement of
assets is significant, within and between jurisdictions, and how these transfers and transactions
impact on sustainable development and can worsen inequalities. Our attention is on the
conceptualisation, measurement and operationalisation of IFFs in particular and the corresponding
implications for available policy responses in the form of situational interventions as a more plausible
route to understanding and reducing IFFs in the context of promoting SDG16.4.
IMPACT This paper analyses the UK response to bribery and corruption and provides evidence of a divergent approach, in terms of strategy, policy and enforcement action, to addressing bribery in the domestic and international contexts. This has adverse implications for the prevention, detection, and investigation of bribery. In order to reduce the divergence and reinforce the domestic focus, governments need to ensure better and more detailed data for monitoring of the extent of bribery, the presence of a single To cite: lead for the domestic context to ensure consistency and coordination , and the availability of training for relevant staff to make certain relevant stakeholders are alert to emerging corruption issues. The empirically informed insights and arguments in this paper are relevant to policymakers and practitioners working in the area of anti-corruption, as well as non-governmental organisations seeking to scrutinise anti-corruption strategies, policies and practice in the UK.
recompense and solicitation). The analysis reveals that regulatory and organisational systems play a paradoxical role of both ‘capable guardians’ and ‘facilitators of misconduct’; this has implications for criminological theory.
Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions that exist within and between the nation-states of Europe, and within the institutions of the European region.
This European voice provides an original contribution to discourses surrounding a form of crime which is underrepresented in current criminological literature.
existence of sufficient and appropriately deployed assets. Mindful of this, and of the misuse of both
public and private wealth, UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.4 (SDG 16.4) seeks to
“...significantly reduce illicit financial … flows.” This chapter critiques how this aim of SDG 16.4 has
been operationalised. We argue that the choice and placement of the term “illicit” is crucial: it can
relate to the finances, the flows, or both, as well as to the people involved, as facilitators or
protagonists, and is expansive enough to encompass criminal, unlawful, and ostensibly legal but
illegitimate or harmful assets, acts, and actors. Moreover, this chapter explores why the movement of
assets is significant, within and between jurisdictions, and how these transfers and transactions
impact on sustainable development and can worsen inequalities. Our attention is on the
conceptualisation, measurement and operationalisation of IFFs in particular and the corresponding
implications for available policy responses in the form of situational interventions as a more plausible
route to understanding and reducing IFFs in the context of promoting SDG16.4.
IMPACT This paper analyses the UK response to bribery and corruption and provides evidence of a divergent approach, in terms of strategy, policy and enforcement action, to addressing bribery in the domestic and international contexts. This has adverse implications for the prevention, detection, and investigation of bribery. In order to reduce the divergence and reinforce the domestic focus, governments need to ensure better and more detailed data for monitoring of the extent of bribery, the presence of a single To cite: lead for the domestic context to ensure consistency and coordination , and the availability of training for relevant staff to make certain relevant stakeholders are alert to emerging corruption issues. The empirically informed insights and arguments in this paper are relevant to policymakers and practitioners working in the area of anti-corruption, as well as non-governmental organisations seeking to scrutinise anti-corruption strategies, policies and practice in the UK.
recompense and solicitation). The analysis reveals that regulatory and organisational systems play a paradoxical role of both ‘capable guardians’ and ‘facilitators of misconduct’; this has implications for criminological theory.