Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Margaret Evelyn Beare xi
5. Introduction 1
6. SECTION ONE • Global Money Systems and Financial Crimes: Limitations of State Regulation
7. Introduction 11
8. 1 Policing and the Money System 15
9. 2 Big Banks, Big Money, and Big Crimes in the Era of “Too Big to Fail” 35
10. 3 Locating the Centre: State, Capital, and the Political Economy of Money Laundering in Canada 59
11. 4 Policing Financial Crime – Do We Care? 83
12. SECTION TWO • Beyond Reach: Crimes of the Entrepreneurial Elites
13. Introduction 99
14. 5 Opportunistic Prosecution? Huawei and the Role of Banking Regulation in China’s Trade War with the United States 105
15. 6 From Brushstrokes to Keystrokes: Policing Entrepreneurial Art Crime 121
16. 7 Big Money, Small Tax: The Normalization of Tax Evasion 149
17. SECTION 3 • Big Police: If We Can’t Live with Them, Can We Live Without Them?
18. Introduction 167
19. 8 Reform of the Police 171
20. 9 Inquiring into Public Policing 187
21. 10 Nowhere to Turn for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: Misogyny in Policing 207
22. 11 Offloading, Upstreaming, Defunding, and Costing: Re-thinking Calls to Police for Absconding Social Work and Mental Health Clients 229
23. 12 Engaging Evil? Conducting Research with and on Policing Organizations 249
24. 13 Big Policing and Defunding: What’s at Stake? 265
25. Contributors 293
26. Index 297