The Financial Management of the Illicit Tobacco Trade in the United Kingdom

Antonopoulos, Georgios A.; Hall, Alexandra

doi:10.1093/bjc/azv062

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“…Some critics argue that better metrics are needed in order to be able to assess and compare asset recovery with other methods of disruption (Stott 2014: 30;Creedon 2014: 8). Socio-metric analysis, however, offers no insights into how offenders operate, respond and adapt to regulation (Hobbs 2014;Levi and Reuter 2006; see also Antonopoulos and Hall 2016;Trainor 2017;Wood 2016b).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In so doing, they may be able to get help from the banking sector (Burgis 2016) and if they are senior corporate actors they are less likely to be suspected of being involved in fraud or money laundering (Levi 2015). It is also more difficult for governments to go after bigger illegal players as the interests and finances of the latter are often closely intertwined with the interests of elites and big legal business (see Antonopoulos and Hall 2016;Ruggiero et al 1998 cited in Antonopoulos andHall 2016: 715;van Duyne 2003 cited in Antonopoulos andHall 2016: 715).…”

Section: Income Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Back-Door Governance of Crime: Confiscating Criminal Assets in the UK

Chistyakova

Wall

Bonino

2019

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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The policy and practice of confiscating criminal assets to control crime and recover illicit wealth has come to occupy a central position in national and international policing and security agendas. However, this practice has raised many questions about agencies' abilities to measure success and also the social impacts of asset confiscation. This article contributes to the crime control debates by exploring contemporary literature and drawing upon a subset of data from the Joint Asset Recovery Database (JARD). The first part of the article briefly outlines the key legislative provisions of asset recovery in the UK. The second part explores what the JARD data tells us about the performance of the confiscation of proceeds of crime approach and it will argue that seizing illicit wealth has not been the main priority for government. It will argue instead that the proceeds of crime approach, originally designed to target the most serious and organised crime, has effectively become a disciplining and symbolic tool against relatively lower level acquisitive crimes. It concludes that while technical measures of impact remain inconclusive, it is more important to subject the ideological underpinnings of the proceeds of crime law to critical scrutiny.

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Section: Income Collectionmentioning

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The Back-Door Governance of Crime: Confiscating Criminal Assets in the UK

Chistyakova

Wall

Bonino

2019

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…We conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with a variety of key actors in the UK, including non-governmental organisation representatives (NGOs) (n=3), law enforcement agents (LEAs) (n=9), experts on cyber-crime and/or human smuggling (and human trafficking) (n=4), and human smugglers (n=2). The two human smugglers were identified from a previous research study that one of the authors conducted on another manifestation of 'organised crime' (see Antonopoulos, 2008;Antonopoulos and Hall, 2016). In essence, snowball sampling was used with our initial participants introducing us to other (potential then) participants.…”

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The digital routes of human smuggling? Evidence from the UK

Diba

Papanicolaou

Antonopoulos

2019

Crime Prev Community Saf

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There are justified concerns but little empirical evidence about the implications of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the business of human smuggling. The knowledge base on the use of ICT in human smuggling has rarely gone beyond the rather generic observation that the Internet and mobile technologies are available to and are used by both smugglers and migrants, and there is a concrete knowledge gap regarding the extent and the mode in which the use of ICT is integrated in the process of smuggling. In this paper, which is part of a wider research effort concerned with the role of the Internet in human smuggling in the European Union, we interrogate the outlook and implications of the use of contemporary mobile technology and of social media in the organisation and conduct of human smuggling to the United Kingdom (UK).

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“…As in the legitimate markets, some people may choose to invest in criminal markets without actually participating in them (see Antonopoulos & Hall, 2015 ). In this dataset, YX was involved in the sex trade as an investor: I had some spare money and was looking for investment opportunities.…”

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Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control

Antonopoulos¹

2016

Studies of Organized Crime

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This series will publish theoretically signifi cant books in two primary areas. One is the political economy of organized crime and criminality whether at the transnational, national, regional, or local levels (focus on fi nancial crime, political corruption, environmental crime, and the expropriation of resources from developing nations). The other is human rights violations, particularly in Third World countries. Manuscripts that cover either historical or contemporary issues of the above, utilizing qualitative methodologies, are equally welcome. In addition, we are particularly interested in publishing the work of sophisticated junior scholars.More information about this series at

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The Financial Management of the Illicit Tobacco Trade in the United Kingdom

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

The Back-Door Governance of Crime: Confiscating Criminal Assets in the UK

The Back-Door Governance of Crime: Confiscating Criminal Assets in the UK

The digital routes of human smuggling? Evidence from the UK

Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control

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