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Canada: The State of the Federation 2022

Financial Crime in Canada

edited by Christian Leuprecht & Jamie Ferrill

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2023
Category
General, Business Ethics
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781553394655
    Publish Date
    Mar 2023
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553394648
    Publish Date
    Mar 2023
    List Price
    $39.95

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Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. Transactions are cloaked with apparent legality, which makes tracking criminal activity through economic or financial statistics a complex undertaking. A web of clandestine processes disguises its scale and location. As a result, financial crime is difficult to detect, disrupt, deter, and prosecute. This distinctive volume, authored by leading scholars and practitioners, opens the black box of financial crime in the Canadian federation. Its findings will help to inhibit the in-, out-, and through-flows of vast sums of dirty money by enhancing the capacity to investigate and prosecute financial criminals.

With a primary focus on money laundering, Canada: The State of the Federation 2022 identifies federal and provincial trends – including regulatory, legislative, political, institutional, and enforcement trends – that have inadvertently enabled the proliferation of this illicit activity. Showcasing an array of the best multidisciplinary research and experience, the volume demystifies financial crime, thus raising the level of awareness and public debate.

Contributors include Sanaa Ahmed, John Cassara, Garry Clement, Arthur J. Cockfield, Caroline Dugas, Jamie Ferrill, Cameron Field, Michelle Gallant, Peter German, Todd Hataley, Christian Leuprecht, David Maimon, Katarzyna McNaughton, Denis Meunier, Pierre-Luc Pomerleau, Stephen Schneider, Pamela E. Simpson, and Jeffrey Simser.

About the authors

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D, Queen’s) is Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science, Royal Military College, on leave as Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University in South Australia. He is a recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. He is president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University where he is also a fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy. An expert in security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he has held visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Australia, and is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament.

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Jamie Ferrill is a lecturer in Financial Crime Studies at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University.

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