Mary Young's Outputs (22)

The ascent of green crime: Exploring the nexus between the net zero transition and organized crime (2022)
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This editorial highlights a fundamental gap in the existing literature base whereby the climate crisis is largely missing from journals covering all aspects of finance - including those that cover financial crime (for a wider discussion, see Stern, 2... Read More about The ascent of green crime: Exploring the nexus between the net zero transition and organized crime.

It’s not illegal, it’s just immoral? The relationship between organised crime and the upper-world (2021)
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Organised crime is an economic enterprise, indeed Sellin observed just such a point in 1963 (Sellin, 1963). The symmetries with successful legitimate organisations are uncanny. Organised crime and upper-world business ventures have profit at their co... Read More about It’s not illegal, it’s just immoral? The relationship between organised crime and the upper-world.

A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control (2020)
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This is the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering (AML) policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry. In the aftermath of these initial compromises in 198... Read More about A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control.

Organised crime and security threats in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Critical analysis of US assumptions and policies (2019)
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The prevailing attitude of international legal institutions is that drug trafficking remains a dominant organised crime, which presents a major security threat to all nations, including the US. While US assumptions and policies on organised crime and... Read More about Organised crime and security threats in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Critical analysis of US assumptions and policies.

“Going down the glocal”: Wildlife crime in Vietnam (2017)
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The prevailing attitude of global law enforcement authorities combined with media hyperbole perpetuates the assumption that the illegal wildlife trade has a synchronic relationship with organised crime and additionally generates huge profits for the... Read More about “Going down the glocal”: Wildlife crime in Vietnam.

Western hypocrisy and the never changing face of financial secrecy jurisdictions: Burying the 1975 UN agenda (2017)
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In 1975, the characteristics of new and emerging forms of organized crime aptly described those ingredients which in the present day, are directly attributable as enabling criminal money management, in Britain’s Overseas Territories and Crown Depend... Read More about Western hypocrisy and the never changing face of financial secrecy jurisdictions: Burying the 1975 UN agenda.

Financial transparency in Britain’s secrecy jurisdictions has just got a whole lot murkier following the UK’s decision to leave the EU (2016)
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In light of recent political events, this commentary aims to provoke and promote a discussion concerning the effect of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, on its ability to regulate financial crime in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies wh... Read More about Financial transparency in Britain’s secrecy jurisdictions has just got a whole lot murkier following the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Tax Justice Focus – The Whistleblower edition (2015)
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Guest edited by Mary Alice Young of the University of the West of England, this edition is both an exploration of the difficulties confronting people who want to blow the whistle on companies engaged in providing financial services, and an acknowledg... Read More about Tax Justice Focus – The Whistleblower edition.

The dark figure of money laundering: Editorial for the Journal of Financial Crime (2015)
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The dark figure of crime is concerned with the unrecorded crime or the unreported offence that has gone unnoticed by the police and statistics. As a component of the dark figure of crime, the difficulty in generating real life statistics for money la... Read More about The dark figure of money laundering: Editorial for the Journal of Financial Crime.

Editorial: Setting the scene: The HSBC banking scandal (2015)
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At the beginning of February 2015, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp—or HSBC, as it is more widely known—was exposed by an international collaboration of news outlets and investigative journalists as a bank which assists transnational organised... Read More about Editorial: Setting the scene: The HSBC banking scandal.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, June 2015: Australian Crime Commission highlights links between terrorism and organized crime (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, March 2015: Spotlight on Polar regions: US Coast Guard announces extra measures to protect Polar regions as it repositions to Western Hemisphere and Arctic (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, May 2015: Fighters from Caribbean travelling to fight with extremists in Syria and Iraq (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, July 2015: Attack on tourists in Port El Kantaoui highlights threat of terrorism and organised crime in Tunisia (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, January 2015: Spotlight on Africa: United States gifts Nigerian Navy another warship to help in fight against organised crime and terrorism (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Special briefing: The financing of terrorism and the role of oil and organised crime (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing 18 December 2014: Spotlight on the Americas (2014)
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Dr Mary Young is a contributing analyst at Open Briefing.

Dirty money in Jamaica (2014)
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© 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state and future pressures of money laundering on Jamaica and the financial crime connections between the UK and Jamaica. Design/methodology/appro... Read More about Dirty money in Jamaica.

Book review for: Ben Bowling (ed.), Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice (2014)
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In any study that aims to fully comprehend the extent of global organized crime in the Caribbean, it is necessary to also consider the responses of law enforcement to the problem. In this book Ben Bowling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justic... Read More about Book review for: Ben Bowling (ed.), Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice.

Book review: Insider dealing: Law and practice, by Sarah Clarke, (Oxford, 2013), 335 pages, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967295-0 (2014)
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Although this is primarily a practitioner’s text, it is also a book that will be used by students and academics in the research field of white collar crime. It is both a useful and necessary tool in accessibly explaining a complex subject. Although i... Read More about Book review: Insider dealing: Law and practice, by Sarah Clarke, (Oxford, 2013), 335 pages, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967295-0.

The use of anti-money laundering legislation to combat child trafficking in Nigeria (2014)
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According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), ‘[t]he trafficking of children for the purpose of domestic service, prostitution and other forms of exploitative labour is a widespread phenomenon in Nigeria’.[1] Furthermore, UNICEF considers... Read More about The use of anti-money laundering legislation to combat child trafficking in Nigeria.

The exploitation of offshore financial centres: Banking confidentiality and money laundering (2013)
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© 2013, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. PurposeThe paper aims to highlight the relationship between money laundering and banking confidentiality in offshore financial centres – particularly following the recent publicity and BBC expose surrounding... Read More about The exploitation of offshore financial centres: Banking confidentiality and money laundering.