ISEC are pleased to announce a suite of awards recognising academic excellence which will be made at the second ISEC annual conference at Kingston University on September 7th 2026. These awards are designed to recognise excellence in research and scholarship in economic criminology.     Our awards will also be unique in that ISEC members will ultimately decide who wins them. The awards will be decided by the following process. First, members will be able to make nominations.

It is well documented that fraud is the UK’s most commonly experienced crime (Westmore, 2023), is considered an issue of national security (Bath, 2021) and causes both financial and psychological harm (Carter, 2021) so comprehensive and far-reaching that it can be considered a public health issue (Hawkswood et al., 2022); one that authorities have a duty of care to safeguard against (Brown and Carter, 2020). The problem of fraud has also been widely reported in the media, par

Corporate tax crime and corruption are often treated as separate worlds; one about dodging tax, the other about bribery and abuse of power. But we argue that the two are deeply intertwined, mutually reinforcing, and structurally difficult to prosecute. The UK, despite having a sophisticated legal framework, still struggles to hold corporations and senior executives meaningfully accountable. Three core dilemmas explain why.   1. The Ambiguity Problem: What Counts as a Tax Crim

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