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Research Profile

Prof Michael Levi 


Selected Publications

Books

(Forthcoming) White-Collar Crime and its Victims (with A. Pithouse) Oxford: Clarendon Press.

(Forthcoming) Reporting White-Collar Crime: the Media and Social Construction of Business Fraud, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

2009 Drugs & Geld: Misdaadgeld-beheer en drugsmarkten in Europa, Van Duyne, P. and Levi, M., Nijmegen: Wol Legal Publishers. ISBN 978-90-5850-436-4. (Revised Dutch translation of Drugs and Money).

2008 The Phantom Capitalists, 2nd edition, Andover: Ashgate

2005 Drugs and Money (with P. van Duyne) London: Routledge

1999 Fraud: Organization, Motivation and Control I and II, Aldershot: Dartmouth, (Edited volumes) ISBN 1 85521 716 3 (579, 417 pp).

1998 Reflections on Organised Crime: Patterns and Control, Oxford: Blackwell (Edited Book and Special Issue, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice)

1996 The Corruption of Politics and the Politics of Corruption (with D. Nelken), Oxford: Blackwell. (Edited Book and Special Issue, Journal of Law & Society).

1994 Money-Laundering in the UK: an Appraisal of Suspicion-Based Reporting (with M. Gold), London: Police Foundation.

1993 The Investigation, Prosecution, and Trial of Serious Fraud, Royal Commission on Criminal Justice Research Study No.14, London: HMSO.

1991 Customer Confidentiality, Money-Laundering, and Police-Bank Relationships: English law and practice in a global environment, London: Police Foundation.

1987 Regulating Fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process, London: Routledge.

1981 The Phantom Capitalists: the Organisation and Control of Long-Firm Fraud, London: Heinemann. (Cambridge Studies in Criminology Series.)

 

Recent Articles in Learned Journals

2010 ‘Serious tax fraud and noncompliance: A review of evidence on the differential impact of criminal and noncriminal proceedings’, Criminology and Public Policy, August 2010, 9(3): 493-513.

2010 ‘Combating the financing of terrorism:  A history and assessment of the control of ‘threat finance’,’ British Journal of Criminology Special Issue Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives, 50 (4): 650–669.

2010 ‘Introduction’, Levi, M, Karstedt, S. and Ruggiero, V.. British Journal of Criminology Special Issue Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives, 50(4): 617-621.

2010 ‘Hitting the suite spot: sentencing frauds’, Journal of Financial Crime, 17(1): 116-132.

2009 ‘E-gaming and money laundering risks: a European overview’, ERA-Forum, 10 (4), December: 533-546, DOI  - 10.1007/s12027-009-0143-2. ISSN: 1612-3093.

2009 Doig, A. and Levi, M. ‘Inter-agency work and the UK public sector investigation of fraud, 1996-2006: joined up rhetoric and disjointed reality’, Policing and Society, 19(3): 199-215.  ISSN 1043-9463.

2009 Dorn, N. and Levi, M. ‘Private – Public or Public – Private? Strategic Dialogue on Serious Crime and Terrorism in the EU’, Security Journal, 22: 302 – 316. ISSN 0955–1622/08.

2009 ‘Suite Revenge? The Shaping of Folk Devils and Moral Panics about White-Collar Crimes’, British Journal of Criminology, 49 (1): 48-67. ISSN 0007-0955.

2008 Dorn, N., Levi, M. and White, S.  ‘Do European procurement rules generate or prevent crime?’, Journal of Financial Crime, 15(3): 243-260. ISSN: 1359-0790.

2008 ‘‘Organised Fraud’:  Unpacking Research on Networks and Organisation’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8(4): 389-420. ISSN 1748-8958.

2008 Edwards, A. and Levi, M. ‘Researching the Organisation of Serious Crimes’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8(4): 363-388. ISSN 1748-8958.

2008 Levi, M. and Edwards, A., ‘The Organisation of Serious Crimes: Developments in Research and Theory’, Criminology and Criminal Justice 8(4): 359-362. ISSN 1748-8958.

2008 ‘White-collar, organised and cyber crimes in the media: some contrasts and similarities’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 49: 365–377

2008 ‘Measuring the impact of fraud:  a conceptual and empirical journey’, M. Levi and J. Burrows, British Journal of Criminology, 48(3): 293-318, ISSN 0007-0955.

2008 ‘East meets west in anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist finance: policy dialogue and differentiation on security, the timber trade and 'alternative' banking’, N Dorn and M. Levi, Asian Journal of Criminology, 1 (1), doi: 10.1007/s11417-007-9041-0.

2007 ‘European private security, corporate investigation and military services: collective security, market regulation and structuring the public sphere’, N. Dorn and M. Levi Policing and Society, 17:3: 213 – 238. ISSN 1043-9463.

2007 ‘Sentencing frauds: a comparative perspective’, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, Special Issue on Crossing the Borders, 2/3: 158-174, ISSN 0026-9301.

2006 All in double issue of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Vol. 12

  • From Delphi to Brussels, the Policy Context: Prophecy, Crime Proofing, Impact Assessment, N. Dorn and M. Levi
  • Textual Ambiguity, Crime Opportunity, Criminal Motivation: Towards a Workable Method for Crime Impact Assessment, M. Levi and N. Dorn
  • Regulation and Corporate Crime: Managers and Auditors, M. Levi and N. Dorn, 12, 229-255.
  • Catastrophic, Serious or Merely Irritating? Public Security, Market and Restructuring Perspectives on Crime Seriousness in Insurance and Corporate Security Contexts’, N. Dorn and M. Levi 

2006 ‘Introduction’, Karstedt, S., Levi, M. and Godfrey, B., British Journal of Criminology, 46: 971–975, ISSN 0007-0955.

2006 ‘The Media Construction of Financial White-Collar Crimes’, British Journal of Criminology, Special Issue on Markets, Risk and Crime, 46: 1037-1057. ISSN 0007-0955.

2006 ‘Money Laundering’ (with Peter Reuter), in M. Tonry (ed), Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol.34: 289-375, Chicago: Chicago University Press. ISSN 0192-3234 (also ISBN: 0-226-80869-6).

2005 'The role of solicitors in facilitating ‘Organized Crime’: Situational crime opportunities and their regulation', Middleton, D. and Levi, M., Crime, Law & Social Change 42 (2-3): 123—161, ISSN 0925-4994.

2005 'Lawyers as crime facilitators in Europe: An introduction and overview', Levi, M., Nelen, H. and Lankhorst, F., Crime, Law & Social Change 42 (2-3): 117—121, ISSN 0925-4994.

2004 'Reducing and preventing organised crime: An evidence-based critique', Levi, M. and Maguire, M., Crime, Law and Social Change, 41 (5), pp. 397-469, ISSN 0925-4994.

2004 'Recall of emotional and factual pre-trial publicity: their relative influence on jurors’ reasoning and verdict in a simulated fraud' (with T. Honess and E. Charman), Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33 (7), pp. 1404-1416.

2004 'Technologies, security and privacy in the post 9/11 European Information Society' (with D. Wall), Journal of Law & Society. 31(3), pp. 194-220, ISSN 0263-323X

2003 'Enhancing Business Crime Reduction: UK Directors’ Responsibilities to Review the Impact of Crime on Business' (with J. Morgan and J. Burrows), Security Journal, 16(4), pp.7-28, ISSN 0955 1662

2003 ‘Editorial — Roskill 20 year on’, Journal of Financial Crime, 11(1), pp. 6-7, ISSN 1359 0790

2003 ‘The Roskill Fraud Commission revisited: An assessment’, Journal of Financial Crime, 11(1), pp. 38-44, ISSN 1359 0790

2003 ‘Juror competence in serious frauds since Roskill: a research-based assessment’ (with T. Honess and E. Charman), Journal of Financial Crime, 11(1), pp. 17-27, ISSN 1359 0790

2003 'Organising and controlling payment card fraud: fraudsters and their operational environment', Security Journal, 16(2), (2003) ISSN 0955-1662, pp.21-30.

 

Recent Articles in Books

2010 ‘Credit fraud’, in Brookman, F., Maguire,, M., Pierpoint, H. and Bennett, T. (eds), Handbook on Crime, Cullompton: Willan. pp.153-171,  ISBN 978-1-84392-371-8.

2010 ‘Financial Crimes in Comparative Context’, in Shoham, S., Knepper, P. and Kett, M. (eds) International Handbook of Criminology, Boca Raton: CRC Press. Pp.309-342. ISBN  9781420085518. 

2009 ‘Ethnicity, nationality and fraud networks’, Diverse Kwesties, [Editors Chrisje Brants and Sari van der Poel] Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, ISBN 978-90-8974-140-0, pp. 205-212.

2009 ‘Financial Crimes’, Handbook on Crime and Public Policy, [Editor M. Tonry] New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533617-7.

2009 ‘Money Laundering’ (Michael Levi and Peter Reuter), Handbook on Crime and Public Policy [Editor M. Tonry] New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533617-7.

2009 ‘Fear of Fraud and Fear of Crime: a Review’, The Criminology of White-Collar Crime, [Editors S. Simpson and D. Weisburd] New York: Springer.  ISBN 978-0-387-09501-1

2008 ‘Fraud, honesty and markets’, The New Oxford Companion to Law, [Editors P. Cane and J. Conaghan], Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.473-475. ISBN 978-0-19-929054-3.

2008 ‘Policing fraud and organised crime’, Handbook of Policing, 2nd ed., [Editor T. Newburn], Cullompton: Willan. pp.522-552. ISBN 978-1-84392-323-7.

2008 ‘Combating Identity and Other Forms of Payment Fraud in the UK: An Analytical History’, Perspectives on Identity Theft [Editors M. McNally and G. Newman], Monsey, NJ: Criminal Justice Press. ISBN: 978-1-881798-81-1.

2008 ‘Fraud, honesty and markets’, The New Oxford Companion to Law, [Editors P. Cane and J. Conaghan], Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.473-475. ISBN 978-0-19-929054-3.

2008 ‘White-collar criminals’, The New Oxford Companion to Law, [Editors P. Cane and J. Conaghan], Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1244-45. ISBN 978-0-19-929054-3.

2007 ‘Money laundering and corruption’ (with M. Dakolias and T. Greenberg), The Many Faces of Corruption: Tracking vulnerabilities at the sector level, [Editors J. Edgardo Campos and S. Pradhan], Washington, DC: the World Bank. ISBN 0821367250, pp. 389-426.

2007 ‘Lessons for countering terrorist financing from the war on serious and organized crime’, Countering the Financing of Terrorism [Editors T. Biersteker and S. Eckert], London: Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-415-39643-1, pp.260-288.

2007 ‘Organised and Terrorist Crimes’, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [Editors M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner], Fourth Edition, Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

2007 ‘Violent Crime’ (with Mike Maguire and Fiona Brookman), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [Editors M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner], Fourth Edition, Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

2007 ‘Pecunia non olet? The control of money-laundering revisited’, The Organised Crime Community [Editors F. Bovenkerk and M. Levi], New York: Springer, ISBN-10: 0-387-39019-7, pp. 161-182.

2006 ‘The Preventative Control of Organised Crime in Europe: The Emerging Global Paradigm?’, International Key Issues in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Papers in celebration of 25 years of HEUNI, [Editors K. Aromaa and T. Viljanen] Helsinki: HEUNI,  ISBN 952-5333-28-0, pp.92-107.

2006 ‘Combating white-collar and organized economic crimes: some reflections on the role of security’, in Martin Gill (ed.) The Handbook of Security, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN-10 0-230-00680-9, pp.261-280.

2006 ‘Policing Financial Crimes’, in Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis (eds.) The International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, Dordrecht: Springer.

2005 ‘International Fraud’ In M. Natarajan (ed.) Introduction to International Criminal Justice, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 007319848X

2005 ‘Colletti bianchi e crimine organizzato nei notiziari britannici: alcune riflessioni sociologiche’, La Televisione del Crimine [Editors Gabrio Forti and Marta Bertolino], pp. 509-528, Milan: Vita e Pensiero, ISBN 88-343-1174-4.

2005 ‘The making of the United Kingdom’s Organised Crime Policies’, Organised Crime in Europe [Editors Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli], pp.823-252, Dordrecht: Springer ISBN 1-4020-2615-3.

2005 ‘La organización y regulación comercial del pago fraudulento con tarjetas de crédito’, Delincuencia Económica y Tecnologías de la Información, [Editor Luís Gabaldon] Caracas: Núcleo de Estudios sobre Delincuencia Económica, Universidad Andrés Bello.

2003 ‘Organising financial crimes: breaking the economic power of organised crime groups?’, Global Organized Crime: Trends and Developments [Editors Dina Siegel, Henk van de Bunt, and Damian Zaitch], pp.117-126, Dordrecht: Kluwer ISBN 1-4020-1808-8.

2003 ‘Organised and Financial Crime’, Handbook of Policing [Editor T. Newburn], pp.443-466, Cullompton: Willan ISBN 1-84392-019-0.

2003 'Enterprise criminals, plastic fraud and the informal economy', The Informal Economy: Threat and Opportunity in the City [Editors Joanna Shapland, Hans-Jorg Albrecht, Jason Ditton and Thierry Godefroy], Freiburg: Max Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht pp.199-218 ISBN 3-86113-058-0.

2003 ‘Criminal asset-stripping’: Confiscating the proceeds of crime in England and Wales’, Transnational Organised Crime [Editors Adam Edwards and Peter Gill], pp. 212-226, London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-30095-9.

2003 ‘Economic Crime’, English Criminal Justice Process [Editors Mike McConville and Geoffrey Wilson],pp.423-436, Beijing: Oxford University Press ISBN 7-50364196-7. (In Chinese)

2003 ‘Civil recovery of proceeds of crime’, A Practitioner’s Guide to International Money-Laundering Law and Regulation [Editors A. Clark and P. Burrell], pp.175-192, London: City and Financial Planning, ISBN 1-898830-68-1.

2003 ‘Organising and controlling payment card fraud: fraudsters and their operational environment’, Managing Security [Editor Martin Gill], pp.81-94, Leicester: Perpetuity Press ISBN 1 899287 65 5

2003 ‘Foreword’, Financial Investigation of Crime; A tool of the integral law enforcement approach. [Authors - Prof.dr. Petrus C. van Duyne, Prof.dr. Marcel Pheijffer, R.A., Prof.dr. Hans G. Kuijl, R.A., Arthur Th.H. van Dijk, Gerard J.C.M. Bakker] Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers. Pp. 1-4, ISBN: 90-5850-038-1

2003 'Following the criminal and terrorist money trails', Criminal Finances and Organising Crime in Europe [Editors P. van Duyne, K. von Lampe and J. Newell], Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers. pp.105-122, ISBN: 90-5850-045-4.




Additional Information

eCrime Reduction Paternship Mapping Study [2.2 Mb]

Report written by Professor Michael Levi and Dr Matthew Williams and launched at the House of Commons on 10th September 2012.


Impacts of Financial Crimes and Amenability to Control by the FSA: Proposed framework for generating data in a comparative manner [1020.9 Kb]

Impacts of Financial Crimes and Amenability to Control by the FSA:

Proposed framework for generating data in a comparative manner, Dorn, N., Levi, M., Artingstall, D. and Howell, J. , London:  Financial Services Authority.


Money-Laundering Risks and E-gaming: A European Overview and Assessment [620.8 Kb]

Money-Laundering Risks and E-gaming: A European Overview and Assessment


Masculinities and White Collar Crime [217.3 Kb]

Masculinities and White Collar Crime


The Investigation, Prosecution, and trial of Serious Fraud: Royal commission on Criminal Justice Research Study No14 [670.9 Kb]

The Investigation, Prosecution, and trial of Serious Fraud: Royal commission on Criminal Justice Research Study No14


The Nature, Extent and Economic Impact of Fraud in the UK [756.8 Kb]

Report for the Association of Chief Police Officers' Economic Crime Portfolio



Sentencing Frauds: A Review [970.6 Kb]
Paper commissioned by the Government Fraud Review July 2006

Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy and Money Laundering [554.2 Kb]

Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy and Money Laundering, United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.



Money Laundering in the UK [544.0 Kb]

Money Laundering in the UK



Investigating, Seizing and Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime [17.9 Kb]

Investigating, Seizing and Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime,Home Office Police Research Group, Briefing Note



Crime and International Co-operation [135.3 Kb]

Crime and International Co-operation, paper presented to the NCIS/RIIA Conference 1999



Organised Crime, The Organisation of Crime, and the Organisation of Business [197.7 Kb]

Organised Crime, The Organisation of Crime, and the Organisation of Business, DTI Crime Foresight Panel Essay, 2000



The Value of Identity and the Need for Authenticity [239.8 Kb]

The Value of Identity and the Need for Authenticity, DTI Crime Foresight Panel Essay, 2000