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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.

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"""This eclectic collection of essays approaches commercial crimes from a variety of perspectives: sociological, economic, political, historical, and journalistic. The authors reveal how big crime is more extensive, complex, profitable, and threatening to the social and economic fabric than what has been labelled as organized, white-collar, and street-level crime. This is a significant contribution to the criminological literature on major crimes committed by organizational structures.""--Fred Desrochers, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo ""This collection effectively links the notions of big money, big crime, and big policing. Murray, Kirley, and Schneider offer an approach that is based in current literature and which connects these three topics in an innovative way. Compiling this strong material together in a single volume is a significant contribution to the academic literature and will give a boost to those who are trying to change the current system of ignoring much of this Big Crime.""--Rick Linden, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba"

""This eclectic collection of essays approaches commercial crimes from a variety of perspectives: sociological, economic, political, historical, and journalistic. The authors reveal how big crime is more extensive, complex, profitable, and threatening to the social and economic fabric than what has been labelled as organized, white-collar, and street-level crime. This is a significant contribution to the criminological literature on major crimes committed by organizational structures.""--Fred Desrochers, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo ""This collection effectively links the notions of big money, big crime, and big policing. Murray, Kirley, and Schneider offer an approach that is based in current literature and which connects these three topics in an innovative way. Compiling this strong material together in a single volume is a significant contribution to the academic literature and will give a boost to those who are trying to change the current system of ignoring much of this Big Crime.""--Rick Linden, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba

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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. Stephen Schneider is a professor in the Department of Criminology at Saint Mary’s University.

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