P. C. van Duyne

• Professor at Willem Pompe Instituut

The chapters in this book give an impressive view on the many faces of cross-border crime in Europe, ranging from human smuggling, arms trafficking, fraud and money laundering: many cross-border spectrums of crime. See and download other CCC volumes and you will be well up-dated.

Corruption, organised and economic crime, fraud and money laundering are important narratives about crime in the EU as well as Eastern Europe where corruption is still endemic.

Proportionality matters in the relationship between the government and the public. Though it is not operationalised, it evolves alongside political and legislative developments. However, in the field of money laundering, it is questionable whether this principle is met. A review of the Regulatory Impact Assessments for UK Money Laundering Regulatio...

The overarching aim of this book is to bring order to the subjects of money laundering and of the anti-money laundering frameworks that have been written over the past thirty years. It provides scholars, practitioners and policy makers with a guide to what is known of the subject thus far. The book examines critically the underlying assumptions of...

This chapter explores the approach to AML, mapping its evolution from the US and the war on drugs in the early 1980s through to the establishment of the FATF and global regulatory framework that we have in place today. We unpick the figures behind the threat narrative and the size of the money laundering problem, highlighting the lack of clarity ov...

Eager for crime money: The reality of asset recovery Dutch policy makers, as elsewhere, have a strong belief in the effectiveness of asset recovery legislation. There are high expectations concerning the amounts of crime money to be collected, and the collection thereof would enable theauthorities to tackle serious, organized crime and fill the tre...

This chapter looks into the relationship between art and money laundering, or, in more neutral terms, criminal money management. Objects of art may be of interest to criminals with a surplus of criminal income. Or it can be used to launder money. It is even rumoured that organised crime specifically makes use of art to launder part of their crimina...

This chapter looks into the relationship between art and money laundering, or, in more neutral terms, criminal money management. Objects of art may be of interest to criminals with a surplus of criminal income. Or it can be used to launder money. It is even rumoured that organised crime specifically makes use of art to launder part of their crimina...

When we look back at the past decades of crime and criminal policy development, a substantial part of which – 15 years – is covered by the Cross-border Crime Colloquium Volumes, one cannot avoid a feeling of relativity: within a lifeti me some moral and criminal issues have changed from 'threat' to 'acceptable' or the other way round, or are only n...

Corruption, economic and organised crime continues to affect European society as anywhere in the world. It seeps through every crack of the structures of civil society: whether it concerns trade and industry, the public administration or the governments. This is not an outside threat against which society can defend itself by establishing more defe...

a Organised crime, whether or not in its Transnational manifestation, is usually depicted in huge threatening dimensions. However, despite this sometimes superhuman representation one should not forget that we are dealing with a human phenomenon and, therefore, should not lose sight of the corresponding human dimensions. This also concerns related...

This chapter describes a behavioural science approach to the problem of organised crime. It describes the organised criminal as a crimeentrepreneur, who is essentially a risk-entrepreneur. From this perspective the chapter elaborates the potential for a behavioural science contribution to police investigations in this field. It descrîbes the social...

An experiment was performed to determine whether there would be a difference in insight between an inferential problem expressed in a symbolic and in a realistic form. The task consisted of the selection of cards which, if turned over, could violate a given rule. The logical relation which the rule expressed was that of material implication, presen...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the state of corruption in Serbia, based on available empirical evidence produced by the penal law‐enforcement agencies themselves. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses an analysis of available documents, criminal cases of the Municipal Court of Belgrade, data from the Public P...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to generally express concern about the threat of crime‐money to the real estate sector and the lack of evidence coming forward from research and law enforcement. Design/methodology/approach In addition to a review of the literature, this research project analysed the confiscation database of the Dutch prosecuti...

This article provides an analysis of the knowledge base of organised crime assessments and policy making in the European Union. It is argued that the current European organised crime (threat) assessments are no reliable and relevant instruments to make meaningful statements about organised crime. The data collection system of the current assessment...

The break up of Yugoslavia resulted in successor states in which corruption spread like wildfire, except Slovenia. Therefore, research of corruption in one country of the Western Balkan should be projected against neighbours. Studying corruption in Serbia and projecting it against her neighbours shows that it scores on some indexes in-between. Doin...

The phenomenon of psycho-active drugs, and our reactions to them, is one of the most fascinating topics of the social history of mankind. Starting with an analysis of the 'policy of fear' in which law enforcement is 'haunted' by drug money, Drugs and Money offers a radical reconsideration of this highly contentious issue. In this intriguing book, P...

The fight against money laundering has been energetically introduced and developed into a global enforcement regime. Various economic and financial justifications have been put forward, which are not self-evident. The simple and basic foundation is that ill-gotten profits should not remain in the possession of the criminal. Nevertheless, the cause...

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 6th Cross-border Crime Colloquium, held in September 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

This edited volume contains ten peer-reviewed papers originally prepared for the Fourth Colloquium on Cross-border Crime, held at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in October 2002. Petrus van Duyne examines the organized-crime debate in the Netherlands. Tom Vander Beken and Melanie Defruytier pre...

The smuggling of taxed goods, like tobacco or alcohol, has always been a lucrative cross-border crime business. The very high excises for tobacco in the United Kingdom since the 1990's has stimulated the already existing cigarette smuggling from the continent, particularly from Eastern Europe. The analysis of the investigations carried out by the D...

The Netherlands is rated as one of the ‘Least Corrupt Countries’. For ‘corruption watchers’ this may look like a dull landscape indeed: for want of ‘big’ cases, international attention has been limited to the 30-year-old corruption scandal involving the Prince-consort, the Lockheed affair. Nevertheless, the seeming dullness may be just an appearanc...

This volume comprises papers presented at the Third Colloquium on Cross-border Crime, held at the Police Academy Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in October 2001.

This volume comprises a selection of papers prepared for the Second Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, held in Budapest, Hungary, at the National Institute of Criminology (OKRI) in September 2000.

The paper describes the organized criminal, and the fight against organized crime from a behavioural point of viiew. The author considers the organized criminal a crime-entrepreneur who has to operate in an enduring violent entrepreneurial landscape in which he has to cope with the problem of social information management. The article described how...

This paper describes the results of the analysis of the Dutch database of suspect financial transactions for the years 1994-1996. It provides a detailed insight into the money volume at risk, the reasons for disclosure and the persons and corporations involved. The results show that from the start 48% of the disclosed money reports had to be discar...

Für die Frage nach der Beziehung zwischen dem Phänomender Organisierten Kriminalität und den Staatsgrenzen in Europa gibt es zur Zeit genügend Anlaß: die offenen Grenzübergänge zwischen den sogenannten Schengen-Staaten und die kontrollierten zu den Nicht-Schengen-Staaten und den EU-Nachbarstaaten. Obwohl man dazu tendieren würde, hier eine Beziehun...

This article examines the phenomenon of money-laundering as a form of criminal money-management. It elaborates some of the pitfalls of the official approach as set out by the Financial Action Task Force report and the lost opportunities concerning understanding of the cross-border money-flows in north-western Europe. It describes the relationship b...

The perception of organised crime as an external threat to political stability and integrity, as well as to orthodox commercial activity, is based on an assumption about the motives and intentions of organised criminals. It invariably results in a call for a war against crime. The reality and the possible solutions are less dramatic but also more c...

Organized crime is often perceived in terms of extended, hierarchical crime families that extend not only their activities but also their authority structures across national boundaries. However accurate such a view may or may not have been in the United States, where it originated, evidence from a Dutch survey of organized crime enterprises reveal...

The paper examines certain problems in determining the extent of money-laundering. The author first discusses the methodological problems inherent in assessing its volume. He then discusses two methods to estimate the extent of money-laundering. One method is based on the cash-flow which is generated by many forms of organised crime trade. In cross...

There is concern about penetration of organized crime in the legitimate business. This penetration can take various forms, ranging from a complete take over to a veritable symbiosis between crime-enterprises and the legitimate industry. This paper describes the interaction between crime-enterprises in the mineral oil market in the Unites States and...

It is to be expected that the development of an open economic space within the E.C. and the increased accessibility of Eastern Europe will lead to new patterns of cross-border crimes. So do the risks of becoming a victim of one of those crimes. However, the risks may not be spread evenly: some markets may become more affected by crime-entrepreneurs...

This paper provides a description of organized fraud in the Netherlands on the basis of emprircal research. Organized crime is analysed within the framework of the enterprise theory, which considers criminal as entrepreneurs trading in forbidden goods or services. Large scale organized fraud crime-enterprises operated among others on the meat marke...

An experiment was designed to investigate whether subjects perform the conditional falsification problem better on sentences they consider as contingently true than on sentences they consider as necessarily true. Subjects had to generate their own sentences out of which the experimenter selected a necessity and a contingency sentence for the falsif...

Deilverable 33 from the project 'Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of a common European approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU.'

Report from the project 'Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of a common European approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU.'

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 8th Cross-Border-Crime Colloquium, held in Tallinn in May 2006. Petrus van Duyne provides an introduction. Joeb Rietrae reviews the 3rd EU anti-money laundering directive. A.T.A. Tilleman discusses the conflict between anti-money laundering and professional secrecy in the case of attor...