Maximillian Edelbacher - Financial Crimes: A Threat to Global Security

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Contents

Section I
NEW SECURITY CONCEPTS

PETER C. KRATCOSKI

GNTER STUMMVOLL

GERALD SCHPFER

MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND GILBERT NORDEN

ALEXANDER SIEDSCHLAG

WALTHER LICHEM

Section II
FINANCIAL CRIMES: A GLOBAL THREAT

MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL

MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL

ALEXANDER SEGER

ARIJE ANTINORI

BOJAN DOBOVEK

ROMAN TOMASIC

ANTHONY MILLS

WOLFGANG HETZER

Section III
PREVENTING ANOTHER FINANCIAL CRISIS: ROLES OF CONTROL MECHANISMS

MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER AND MICHAEL THEIL

MICHAEL THEIL

BOJAN DOBOVEK AND MATIJA MASTNAK

CHRISTIAN FELSENREICH

KATHARINA NOUSSI

CLEMENS FATH

PETER C. KRATCOSKI

MAXIMILLIAN EDELBACHER, MICHAEL THEIL, AND PETER C. KRATCOSKI

Series Editors Preface

While the literature on police and allied subjects is growing exponentially, its impact upon day-to-day policing remains small. The two worlds of research and practice of policing remain disconnected even though cooperation between the two is growing. A major reason is that the two groups speak different languages. The research work is published in hard-to-access journals and presented in a manner that is difficult for a lay person to comprehend. On the other hand, police practitioners tend not to mix with researchers and remain secretive about their work. Consequently, the two groups exchange little dialogue and rarely attempt to learn from one another. Dialogues across the globe among researchers and practitioners on different continents are, of course, even more limited.

I attempted to address this problem by starting the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) where a common platform has brought the two together. IPES (www.ipes.info) is now in its seventeenth year. The annual meetings that constitute most major annual events of the organization have been hosted in all parts of the world. Several publications have resulted from these deliberations, and a new collaborative community of scholars and police officers has been created whose membership runs into several hundreds.

Another attempt was to begin a new journal, aptly called Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR) that opened the gate to practitioners to share their work and experiences. The journal attempts to focus upon issues that help bring the two to a single platform. PPR completed its first ten years in 2009 and continues to evidence the growing collaboration between police research and practice. PPR began with four issues a year, expanded to five in its fourth year, and is now issued six times a year.