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Crime in England and Wales 2009/10 Report
19 Jul 2010
There is a clear pattern from the British Crime Statistics(BCS) of crime reaching a peak in 1995 with a subsequent decline, with overall BCS crime down by 50 per cent since 1995. This is also the first time in recent years in which the UK Cards Association have reported a reduction in levels of credit card fraud with a two per cent reduction in the number of fraudulent transactions (down to 2.7 million in 2009 compared with the 2.8 million recorded in 2008) and a 16 per cent fall in UK fraud losses.
Crime in England and Wales 2009/09 Report
24 Jul 2009
This volume covers crime statistics and geographic disbursement of crime in the UK.
Financial Crime
30 Jun 2009
Did White Collar Crime and Fraud Trigger the Meltdown?. The Jon Jay Centre on Media, Crime and Justice and the McCormick Foundation hosted a unique group of litigators, former SEC officials, sociologists and journalists who gathered to investigate aspects of the financial meltdown in April 2009. This video offers a fascinating insight into white collar crime.
Topics: Credit Crisis Crime Fraud
Drugs, Thugs and Cash
27 May 2009
New America Foundation. Over 90% of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan, and 60% of Afghanistan's GDP comes from poppy trade. Emmy-nominated former Associated Press and ABC News reporter Gretchen Peters spent five years traveling to the deepest reaches of the treacherous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan to research her "stunning" new book, Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. Join in as Peters and Douglas Farah, author of a critically acclaimed book on the international weapons trade, Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, discuss the region's narcotics trade, precariously placed at ground zero in the "war on terror", and the relationship between Afghan drugs, thugs, and money.
Topics: Crime Proceeds of Crime
