Dr. Michael Levi has degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff Universities and has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University since 1991. He has been conducting international research on the control of white-collar and organised crime, corruption and money laundering/ financing of terrorism since 1972, and has published widely on these subjects as well as editing major journals. Current posts include President-elect, US White-Collar Crime Research Consortium; Member, European Commission Group of Experts on Corruption; Member, Organised Crime Council, World Economic Forum; Member, Peer Review College, Economic and Social Research Council and UK Statistics Authority Crime Statistics Advisory Committee; and Member, Economics and Resource Analysis Unit Advisory Panels on Security and Civil Liberties and on Crime and Policing, Home Office. He has served on the Advisory Board of the UK Drug Policy Commission. He is currently preparing a study funded by the American Bar Foundation and the British Academy on country evaluations of money laundering risks.
Selected recent publications (single authored unless specified)
2008 The Phantom Capitalists: the Organisation and Control of Long-Firm Fraud, 2nd edition, Andover: Ashgate.
2005 Drugs and Money (with Petrus van Duyne), London: Routledge.
2012 ‘Something old, something new; something not entirely blue: Uneven and shifting modes of crime control’, (M. Levi and M. Maguire) In T. Newburn and J. Peay (eds.) Policing: Politics, Culture and Control,Oxford: Hart Publishing.
2012 ‘The organisation of serious crimes for gain’, in The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [Editors M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner], Fifth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.595-622. ISBN-10: 0199590273.
2012 ‘Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism’, M. Innes and M. Levi, in The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [Editors M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner], Fifth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.660-685.
2012 ‘How Well Do Anti–Money Laundering Controls Work in Developing Countries?’ In P. Reuter (ed.), Draining Development? Controlling Illicit flows from developing countries, Washington DC: World Bank Press. pp 373-414.
2011 ‘Assessing the costs of frauds’, in D. Gadd, S. Karstedt and S. Messner (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods, London: Sage.
2010 ‘Serious tax fraud and noncompliance: A review of evidence on the differential impact of criminal and noncriminal proceedings’, Criminology and Public Policy, August 2010, 9(3): 493-513.
2010 ‘Combating the financing of terrorism: A history and assessment of the control of ‘threat finance’,’ British Journal of Criminology Special Issue Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives, 50 (4): 650–669.
2010 ‘Hitting the suite spot: sentencing frauds’, Journal of Financial Crime, 17(1): 116-132.
2009 Doig, A. and Levi, M. ‘Inter-agency work and the UK public sector investigation of fraud, 1996-2006: joined up rhetoric and disjointed reality’, Policing and Society, 19(3): 199-215.
2009 Dorn, N. and Levi, M. ‘Private – Public or Public – Private? Strategic Dialogue on Serious Crime and Terrorism in the EU’, Security Journal, 22: 302 – 316.
2008 ‘Measuring the impact of fraud: a conceptual and empirical journey’, M. Levi and J. Burrows, British Journal of Criminology, 48(3): 293-318
2008 Dorn, N., Levi, M. and White, S. ‘Do European procurement rules generate or prevent crime?’, Journal of Financial Crime, 15(3): 243-260.
2008 ‘‘Organised Fraud’: Unpacking Research on Networks and Organisation’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8(4): 389-420.
2008 ‘Policing fraud and organised crime’, Handbook of Policing, 2nd ed., [Editor T. Newburn], Cullompton: Willan. pp.522-552.
Reports
2012 eCrime Reduction Partnership Mapping Study, Levi, M. and Williams, M. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Levi%20Williams%20eCrime%20Reduction%20Partnership%20Mapping%20Study.pdf
2012 Organized Crime Enablers, Geneva: World Economic Forum. 28pp. http://www.weforum.org/reports/organized-crime-enablers
2011 Fraud vulnerabilities and the global financial crisis, Levi, M. and Smith, R. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no.422, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/1/1/A/%7B11A2A2CE-75E7-4D98-A0A9-FD3471B6E841%7Dtandi422.pdf
2009 Impacts of Financial Crimes and Amenability to Control by the FSA: Proposed framework for generating data in a comparative manner, Dorn, N., Levi, M., Artingstall, D. and Howell, J., London: Financial Services Authority. http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/scale_and_impact_paper.pdf.
2009 Money-Laundering Risks and E-gaming: A European Overview and Assessment, http://www.egba.eu/pdf/Levi_Final_Money_Laundering_Risks_egaming%20280909.pdf
2007 The Nature, Extent and Economic Impact of Fraud in the UK. London: Association of Chief Police Officers. Levi, M., Burrows, J., Fleming, M. and Hopkins, M. (with assistance of Matthews, K.). http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/ACPO%20final%20nature%20extent%20and%20economic%20impact%20of%20fraud.pdf.
2005 Literature review on upper level drug trafficking, Dorn, N., Levi, M. and King, L.., Home Office RDS OLR 22/05.
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