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Big Crime and Big Policing

Big Crime and Big Policing

All about Big Money?

Edited by Tonita Murray, Elizabeth Kirley and Stephen Schneider

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

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9781487553784
Published: July 2024

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9781487553777
Published: July 2024

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Following money over national borders, banking systems, casinos, and free trade zones, as well as the world of the corrupt elites, Big Crime and Big Policing brings new scholarly and practical insights into our understanding of the interplay of money, crime, and policing on the grand scale.

In this wide-ranging volume, a mixed group of scholars and practitioners aim to show how money dictates the scope and nature of financial and corporate crimes, and the impact of these crimes on national economies, social institutions, and communal well-being alike. The book examines how the combined efforts of governments and international organizations fail to stop financial crime at its source and, despite apparently generous human and financial resources, police and law enforcement efforts ultimately fall short of defeating big crime and of meeting public safety needs. International in scope, Big Crime and Big Policing provides fresh reflection on a significant problem of our age, one that demands greater attention from governments and the public.

Foreword

Dedication to Professor Margaret E. Beare

Introduction

Section 1: Global Money Systems and Financial Crimes: Limitations of State Regulation

Section Introduction

1. Policing the Global Money System
James Sheptycki

2. Big Banks, Big Money and Big Crimes in the Era of “Too Big to Fail”
Stephen Schneider

3. Locating the Centre: State, Capital, and the Political Economy of Money Laundering in Canada
Sanaa Ahmed

4. Policing Financial Crime: Do We Care?
Peter German

Section 2: Beyond Reach: Crimes of the Entrepreneurial Elites

Section Introduction

5. Criminal Law as a Proxy for Projecting Global Power: The Case of Huawei
Stephen Wilks

6. From Brushstrokes to Keystrokes: Policing Entrepreneurial Art Crime
Elizabeth A. Kirley

7. Big Money, Small Tax: The Normalization of Tax Evasion
Laureen Snider

Section 3: “Big Police”: If We Can’t Live with Them Can We Live without Them?

Section Introduction

8. Reform of the Police
Peter K. Manning

9. Inquiring into Public Policing
Margaret Beare

10. Nowhere to Turn for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: Misogyny in Policing
Anna Willats

11. If Not the Police, Then Who? Exploring the Implications of Defunding the Police on Missing Persons
Laura Huey and Lorna Ferguson

12. Engaging Evil? Conducting Research with and on Policing Organizations
Kevin D. Haggerty, Sandra M. Bucerius and Daniel J. Jones

13. Defunding Big Policing: What’s at Stake?
Tonita Murray

Index

Tonita Murray is an independent researcher and police reform consultant.

Elizabeth Kirley is a professor in the Professional LLM program at Osgoode Hall Law School and called to the Ontario bar.