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Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns
Bid-rigging harms economies and societies. While existing research has primarily focused on quantifying the economic damages resulting from...
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Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties
Our study analyzes data from the Corporate Prosecution Registry of the University of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law...
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When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome
The judicial operation “mondo di mezzo” (middle-world) revealed in 2014 the existence of a criminal network in Rome, dubbed Mafia capitale. Its main...
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The Development of German Criminal Law Against Corruption in the Private Sector
Public and private corruption is no longer a problem of develo** and emerging countries alone but has developed into a cross-border phenomenon. The...
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The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras
Since the mid-1990s, Latin American countries have witnessed an increase in crime and violence, making it one of the most dangerous regions in the...
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International regime complexes and corporate crime: a research agenda based on the Volkswagen diesel fraud case
Criminological literature has often pointed to the absence or weakness of existing international regulation as important explanatory factors of...
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Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice
Some African state responses to transnational organized crime (TOC) are criticized for being overly focused on the use of force by military and law...
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The organizational reasons for wrongdoing. The case of Italy’s Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM)
Many scholars have highlighted the individual, organizational and inter-organizational causes of organizational wrongdoing; others have focused on...
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The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) poses a threat to many countries in Africa, Asia, South and Central America. While the role of informal networks in...
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Business cartels and organised crime: exclusive and inclusive systems of collusion
In this article, two case studies of large-scale bid rigging in the construction industry in Canada and the Netherlands are analysed to explore why...
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Communicative Shifters—Responsibility as Ultimate Normative Addressability
The semantics of responsibility has made its career in science and social practice. While, for instance, the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility...
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Strong by concealment? How secrecy, trust, and social embeddedness facilitate corporate crime
This article examines how corporate crime is organised through studying the longevity of illegal business cartels. Previous studies demonstrate...
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Mexican cartel expansion: a quantitative examination of factors associated with territorial claims
Since the war on Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) began, shortly after Felipe Calderón took office as president in 2006, violence has...
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Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law
Firms enter cartels (e.g. price-fixing; bid-rigging) in order to control market uncertainties and gain collusive profits, but face challenges in...
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Competition Law and LIBOR in Three Jurisdictions: The United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Union
The London Interbank Offered Rate, better known as LIBOR, has ridden turbulent times over the last decade. Major banks, either through the collusion...
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Illicit Waste Trafficking and Loopholes in the European and Italian Legislation
Evidence shows that waste crimes, principally trafficking, are facilitated by unclear regulatory frameworks. Indeed, lax legislation can...
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Criminalization and Drug “Wars” or Medicalization and Health “Epidemics”: How Race, Class, and Neoliberal Politics Influence Drug Laws
This essay argues that race and class influence drug laws through politicized means. Crack-cocaine and methamphetamine production, sales, and use...
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Mexican cartel negotiative interactions with the state
This research applies pure sociology to the negotiation activity of Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). By operationalizing status along...
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The historical origins of corruption in the develo** world: a comparative analysis of East Asia
A new approach has emerged in the literature on corruption in the develo** world that breaks with the assumption that corruption is driven by...
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Corruption in Public Procurement: Finding the Right Indicators
Red flags are widely used to minimize the risk of various forms of economic misconduct, among which corruption in public procurement. Drawing on...