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Authors: Craig Hughes, David Hicks

• ISBN: 9781032572710
• Year: 2025
• Language: English
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 172
• Publisher: Routledge

Description:

This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators. The work provides a critical review of financial investigation, including international standards, and how it is perceived and applied by law enforcement agencies. It adopts the position that financial investigation is an evidence-gathering process and not simply related to asset recovery. Here, the concept of “following the money” is superseded by the wider approach of “following the financial footprint” by generalist and specialist investigators and analysts. The book focuses on identifying the financial footprint as a skill set for routine investigation application inclusive of the emerging threat posed by the digital environment, including cryptocurrencies. It assesses the terminology, typologies and structures associated with the subject area at the national and international levels. It also examines the historical trajectory of financial investigation to understand current perceptions of it within law enforcement, among government ministers and policy makers. The book will be of interest to students, academics and policy makers internationally working in the areas of criminal law, criminology and finance.

Contents:

1. Introduction;  2. Terminology and its effect upon perceptions of financial investigation;  3. Financial investigation and typologies associated with its application;  4. Historical trajectory, government reports, and financial investigation research;  5. International standards and independent commentators;  6. Financial intelligence and the National Intelligence Model; 7. The financial footprint and digital investigation and intelligence;  8. Conclusion;  References;  Appendix One: Table of Proceeds of Crime Court Orders;  Appendix Two: “Culture of Control” (Garland, 1996, 2001) Considerations

Biography

Craig Hughes is former Head of Policing at the School of Law and Social Sciences, College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK.

David Hicks is Programme Leader MSc Financial Investigation and Digital Intelligence at the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK.

Key Features:

• In-depth analysis of financial investigation and intelligence within UK law enforcement.
• Exploration of international standards and their application.
• Introduction of the "financial footprint" concept for comprehensive investigations.
• Discussion on the integration of digital investigation techniques, including cryptocurrencies.
• Critical review of historical and current perceptions of financial investigation.

• Keywords: financial investigation, financial intelligence, UK law enforcement, asset recovery, evidence gathering, financial footprint, digital investigation, cryptocurrencies, money laundering, financial crime

• Target Audience: law enforcement professionals, financial crime investigators, criminology students, legal scholars, policymakers, forensic accountants

• Genre: non-fiction, law, criminology, financial crime, forensic accounting