The business of crime

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Chizu Nakajima, D. (2007), "The business of crime", Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 10 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmlc.2007.31010caf.002

The business of crime

About 25 years ago the University of London in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Chamber of Commerce established the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge. In the early days, the annual symposium ran for three days and attracted about 200 participants mainly from Commonwealth governments. In recent years it runs for a full week and attracts well over 800 participants from across the world. With over 300 speakers and panellists it represents the most significant non-governmental meeting of experts involved in the prevention and control of criminal and abusive conduct tending to undermine the integrity and stability of national economies.

The significance of the Cambridge symposium, which is now organised by the Centre for International Documentation on Organised and Economic Crime on behalf of 30 or so leading academic and governmental institutions, including the University of Cambridge and International Association of Anti-Corruption Agencies, around the world, is underlined by the fact that last year some 31 Ambassadors and High Commissioners attended. The Twenty Fifth International Symposium will take place at Jesus College, Cambridge from 2 to 9 September 2007. The title of a programme with has 30 plenary sessions and over 40 specialist workshops, is “The Wealth of Nations – at risk.” However, as in previous years the programme addresses a very broad spectrum of issues ranging from the risks presented by and two Shari'ah finance by organised crime and terror to the impact of anti-money laundering laws on the those who handle, innocently or otherwise, other people's money. Details of the programme may be viewed at: www.crimesymposium.org or on the IALS web site.

The annual symposium is organised on a non-profit making basis and constitutes a unique opportunity for those interested academically or otherwise in the control of economic crime and the impact of such controls on others, to meet with experts from around the world. Many of the papers presented at the symposium are published in the Journal of Financial Crime or the Journal of Money Laundering Control.

For further information, please contact Professor Barry Rider or Mrs Angela Futter at Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL or E-mail: symposium@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Dr Chizu NakajimaDirector, Centre for Financial Regulation and Crime, Cass Business School, City University