Millions of Britons are exposed to bribery and money laundering in their everyday lives.

Global leaders and rising scholars converge at Portsmouth for the launch of a new international society tackling economic crime.   The University of Portsmouth welcomed the inaugural International Society of Economic Criminology (ISEC) Annual Conference on 17 June 2025, bringing global experts, early career researchers and practitioners together to chart new responses to economic crime.   Delegates from 48 organisations across more than 20 countries, with several hundred regi

Branislav Hock, Associate Professor, University of Portsmouth The recent decision by the Trump administration to pause the enforcement of...

Professor Mark Button, Co-Director Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime As the Trump administration causes upheaval in the USA and...

ISEC recently worked in partnership with the AML Certification Centre and Centre for Cybercrime and Economic on a panel to discuss new EU regulations related to money laundering. Given the strong links of the UK economy to the EU's this panel discussion discussed these new regulations, particularly in the context of the UK. The whole panel can be watched here .

For years, countries have grappled with illicit money flows (IMFs) via traditional money laundering (ML) methods. The rise of...

This research uses discourse analysis and real written interactions between victim and fraudster to examine what interactional techniques...

Research led by Dr David Shepherd from the University of Portsmouth offers new insights on dishonesty and economic crime. Dishonesty is a...

This book focuses on romance fraud and reveals how fraudsters manoeuvre their target victims through conversations from romance and into...

In April this year, I was having dinner with with Dr Branislav Hock, Dr Elisabeth Carter and Professor Umut Turksen in Portsmouth and we...