THE CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ECONOMIC CRIME

Economic Crime - who pays and who should pay?

5 - 12 SEPTEMBER 2021

The thirty-eighth international symposium on economic crime brings together, from across the globe a unique level and depth of expertise to address one of the biggest threats facing the stability and development of all our economies. The overarching theme for this year’s symposium focuses on who is actually harmed and pays for economically motivated crime and who should be held more accountable. The direct and especially the indirect costs, to us all, of economic and enterprise crime, are considerable and impact profoundly on the more vulnerable. Our legal systems are not in the main successful in holding those who engage in or benefit from economic crime accountable. Indeed, crime does pay, and often the measures we adopt to discourage it raise more issues than they answer. Possibly we need to place much more responsibility on those who are in a position, by virtue of what they do or where they are placed, to prevent and discourage abuse. These important and timely issues are considered in a practical, applied and relevant manner, by those who have real experience whether in law enforcement, regulation, compliance or simply protecting their own or another’s business.