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Overview

Michael Levi is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and computer science, focusing extensively on criminology and organized crime.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these, their notable subfields of study are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Information Systems
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Strategy and Management
  • Economics and Econometrics

The core topics in Levi's work include:

  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Corruption and Economic Development
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Michael Levi has authored papers published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Trends in Organized Crime
  • Crime and Justice
  • Journal of Financial Crime
  • European Journal of Criminology

Recent papers by Levi include:

  • "Understanding the Laundering of Organized Crime Money," 2020, published in Crime and Justice
  • "Making sense of professional enablers' involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation," 2020, published in Trends in Organized Crime

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Levi are:

  • Nicholas Lord
  • Karin van Wingerde
  • Alan Doig
  • Jonathan Lusthaus
  • E.R. Kleemans

The research topics covered show a strong engagement with issues surrounding the mechanisms, networks, and regulatory aspects of economic crime and cybercrime. Levi's published work contributes significantly to understanding the laundering of organized crime money as well as the roles of professional enablers in these processes.

Best Publications

  • Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime

    Ross Anderson;Chris Barton;Rainer Böhme;Richard Clayton

  • Regulating Fraud (Routledge Revivals) : White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process

    Michael Levi

  • The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of Long-Firm Fraud

    Michael Levi

  • Reducing and Preventing Organised Crime: An Evidence-Based Critique

    Michael Levi;Mike Maguire

  • Money Laundering and Its Regulation

    Michael Levi

  • Money Laundering

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  • Organized fraud and organizing frauds: Unpacking research on networks and organization

    Michael Levi

  • The Fraud Triangle revisited

    Alexander Schuchter;Michael Levi

  • Measuring the Impact of Fraud in the UK A Conceptual and Empirical Journey

    Michael Levi;John Burrows

  • Researching the organization of serious crimes

    Adam Michael Edwards;Michael Levi

  • Terrorist Finance, Money Laundering and the Rise and Rise of Mutual Evaluation: A New Paradigm for Crime Control?

    Michael Levi;William Gilmore

  • The media construction of financial white-collar crimes

    Michael Levi

  • Literature Review on Upper Level Drug Trafficking

    M. Levi;N. Dorn;L. A. King

  • Beyond the fraud triangle: Swiss and Austrian elite fraudsters

    Alexander Schuchter;Michael Levi

  • Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings:

    Konstantin Belousov;Thomas Edward Horlick-Jones;Michael John Bloor;Yakov Gilinskiy

  • Climate consequences of natural gas as a bridge fuel

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  • Suite Revenge? The Shaping of Folk Devils and Moral Panics about White-Collar Crimes

    Michael Levi

  • Regulating fraud: White-collar crime and the criminal process

    Michael Levi

  • Combating the Financing of Terrorism A History and Assessment of the Control of ‘Threat Finance’

    Michael Levi

  • The nature, extent and economic impact of fraud in the UK

    Michael Levi;John Burrows;Matthew Fleming;Matthew Hopkins

  • Fast spinning into oblivion? Recent developments in money-laundering policies and offshore finance centres

    Mark P Hampton;Michael Levi

  • Financial havens, banking secrecy and money laundering

    Jack A. Blum;Michael Levi;R. Thomas Naylor;Phil Williams

  • Measuring the changing cost of cybercrime

    Ross Anderson;Chris Barton;Rainer Bölme;Richard Clayton

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Gilhooly
Kenneth Gilhooly Brunel University London
Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park
Terence C. Halliday
Terence C. Halliday American Bar Foundation
Tyler Moore
Tyler Moore University of Tulsa
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson University of Cambridge
David Nelken
David Nelken King's College London
Rainer Böhme
Rainer Böhme University of Innsbruck
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Monica T. Whitty
Monica T. Whitty Monash University
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University

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