Professor Michael Levi

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Teams and roles for Michael Levi

Professor
School of Social Sciences

I have an international reputation for excellence in both fundamental and policy-oriented research on money laundering, corruption, cybercrimes, fraud, transnational organised crime and white-collar crimes. This is reflected in major lifetime achievement awards from the British, European and American Societies of Criminology, the Lifetime Tackling Economic Crime Award, and the Al Thani Rule of Law Committee/UNODC Corruption Research and Education prize.

I have played an advisory role both internationally (with the European Commission and Parliament, Europol, Council of Europe, UNODC and World Economic Forum) and nationally (with the UK Home Office and Cabinet Office, and with the Crime Statistics Advisory Committee). I am currently a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Committee.

Date
Type

2017

Dalley, G. et al., 2017. Researching the financial abuse of individuals lacking mental capacity. The Journal of Adult Protection 19 (6), pp.394-405. (10.1108/JAP-05-2017-0022)
Williams, M. L. and Levi, M. 2017. Cybercrime prevention. In: Sidebottom, A. and Tilley, N. eds. Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2nd edition). London: Routledge(10.4324/9781315724393-21)
Lord, N. and Levi, M. 2017. Organizing the finances for and the finances from transnational corporate bribery. European Journal of Criminology 14 (3), pp.365-389. (10.1177/1477370816661740)
Whitty, M. et al., 2017. Ethical and social challenges with developing automated methods to detect and warn potential victims of Mass-Marketing Fraud (MMF). Presented at: 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Perth, Australia 3-7 April 2017. WWW '17: Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion. Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. , pp.1311-1314. (10.1145/3041021.3053891)
Dalley, G. et al., 2017. Exploring financial abuse as a feature of family life: an analysis of Court of Protection cases. Elder Law Journal 7 (1)
Levi, M. et al. 2017. Cyberfraud and the implications for effective risk-based responses: themes from UK research. Crime, Law and Social Change 67 (1), pp.77-96. (10.1007/s10611-016-9648-0)
Levi, M. 2017. Assessing the trends, scale and nature of economic cybercrimes: overview and issues. Crime, Law and Social Change 67 (1), pp.3-20. (10.1007/s10611-016-9645-3)
Innes, M. and Levi, M. 2017. Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism. In: Liebling,, A. , Maruna, S. and McAra, L. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology : Sixth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.455-477.
Levi, M. 2017. Punishing banks, their clients and their clients' clients. In: The Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law. Palgrave MacMillan
Lord, N. and Levi, M. 2017. O processo criminal de graves crimes de colarinho branco. In: Carlen, P. and Ayres Franca, L. eds. Criminologias alternativas. Canal Ciências Criminais. , pp.325-344.

2016

Levi, M. 2016. The impacts of organised crime in the EU: some preliminary thoughts on measurement difficulties. Contemporary Social Science 11 (4), pp.392-402. (10.1080/21582041.2015.1090802)
Levi, M. 2016. Overview. Crime, Law and Social Change 67 (1), pp.1-2. (10.1007/s10611-016-9657-z)
Manoli, A. E. , Antonopoulos, G. A. and Levi, M. 2016. Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece. Journal of Financial Crime 23 (3), pp.559-573. (10.1108/JFC-06-2015-0030)
Schuchter, A. and Levi, M. 2016. The fraud triangle revisited. Security Journal 29 (2), pp.107-121. (10.1057/sj.2013.1)
Artingstall, D. et al., 2016. Drivers & impacts of derisking: A study of representative views and data in the UK, by John Howell & Co. Ltd. for the Financial Conduct Authority. Project Report.[Online].Surrey: John Howell & Co. Ltd. Available at: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/research/drivers-impacts-of-derisking.pdf.
Levi, M. 2016. Chapter 28: sentencing respectable offenders. In: van Slyke, S. R. , Benson, M. L. and Cullen, F. T. eds. Oxford Handbook of White - Collar Crime. Oxford University Press. , pp.582-602.
Levi, M. et al. 2016. The implications of economic cybercrime for policing. Project Report.[Online].London: City of London Corporation. Available at: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/economic-research-and-information/research-publications/Documents/Research-2015/Economic-Cybercrime-FullReport.pdf.

2015

Levi, M. and Schuchter, A. 2015. Beyond the fraud triangle: Swiss and Austrian elite fraudsters. Accounting Forum 39 (3), pp.176-187. (10.1016/j.accfor.2014.12.001)
Middleton, D. and Levi, M. 2015. Let sleeping lawyers lie: organized crime, lawyers and the regulation of legal services. British Journal of Criminology 55 (4), pp.647-668. (10.1093/bjc/azv001)
Levi, M. 2015. Money for crime and money from crime: financing crime and laundering crime proceeds. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 21 (2), pp.275-297. (10.1007/s10610-015-9269-7)
Lord, N. and Levi, M. 2015. Determining the adequate enforcement of white-collar and corporate crimes in Europe. In: Erp, J. v. , Huisman, W. and Walle, G. V. eds. The Routledge Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe. Routledge. , pp.39-56.
Levi, M. 2015. Qualitative research on elite frauds, ordinary frauds and "organized crime". In: Copes, H. and Miller, J. M. eds. Handbook of Qualitative Criminology. Routledge. , pp.215-235.
Levi, M. 2015. Some reflections on the evolution of financial and economic crimes. In: Rider, B. ed. Research Handbook on International Financial Crime. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.xxviii-xxxvi.
Levi, M. 2015. Understanding the U.S. illicit tobacco market: characteristics, policy context, and lessons from international experiences. Washington, DC:: National Academies Press.
Levi, M. et al. 2015. Understanding criminal finances: policy and methodological framework. In: Shentov, O. and Levi, M. eds. Financing of Organised Crime. Center for the Study of Democracy. , pp.11-28.
Levi, M. and CGD Working Group, 2015. Unintended consequences of anti-money laundering policies for poor countries. Project Report.[Online].Washington DC: Centre for Global Development. Available at: http://www.cgdev.org/publication/unintended-consequences-anti-money-laundering-policies-poor-countries.
Williams, M. L. and Levi, M. 2015. Perceptions of the eCrime controllers: modelling the influence of cooperation and data source factors. Security Journal 28 (3), pp.252-271. (10.1057/sj.2012.47)

2014

Levi, M. 2014. Organized fraud. In: Paoli, L. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Organised Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.460-481.
Levi, M. 2014. Thinking about organised crime. The RUSI Journal 159 (1), pp.6-14. (10.1080/03071847.2014.895253)
Levi, M. 2014. Fighting organised crime and threats to business. In: Martin, G. ed. The Handbook of Security (2nd Edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.256-278.
Levi, M. 2014. Money laundering. In: Paoli, L. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Organised Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.419-443.
Levi, M. 2014. Regulating fraud revisited. In: Davies, P. , Francis, P. and Wyatt, T. eds. Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. Critical Criminological Perspectives Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.221-243.
Levi, M. 2014. The bureau de change. In: Thrift, N. et al., Globalization in Practice. Oxford University Press. , pp.114-118.
Levi, M. , Halliday, T. and Reuter, P. 2014. Global surveillance of dirty money: assessing assessments of regimes to control money-laundering and combat the financing of terrorism. Project Report.[Online].Center on Law and Globalization. Available at: http://www.lexglobal.org/files/Report_Global%20Surveillance%20of%20Dirty%20Money%201.30.2014.pdf.
Levi, M. and Williams, M. L. 2014. Launch of the eCrime partnership mapping study. Presented at: HMG Parliamentary Information Technology Committee London, UK 2012.

2013

Levi, M. and Williams, M. L. 2013. Multi-agency partnerships in cybercrime reduction: Mapping the UK information assurance network cooperation space. Information Management & Computer Security 21 (5), pp.420-443. (10.1108/IMCS-04-2013-0027)
Doig, A. and Levi, M. 2013. A case of arrested development? Delivering the UK National Fraud Strategy within competing policing policy priorities. Public Money and Management 33 (2), pp.145-152. (10.1080/09540962.2013.763435)
Levi, M. 2013. Drug law enforcement and financial investigation strategies, modernising drug law enforcement. Project Report.London: International Drug Policy Consortium.
Levi, M. 2013. Regulating fraud: White-collar crime and the criminal process. Routledge Revivals London: Routledge.
Levi, M. 2013. Who are the criminals?: The politics of crime policy from the age of Roosevelt to the age of Reagan [Commentary]. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 42 (5), pp.683-686. (10.1177/0094306113499534d)
Levi, M. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 2013. Interpreting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident: some questions for corporate criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change 59 (5), pp.487-500. (10.1007/s10611-013-9432-3)
Levi, M. et al. 2013. The economic, financial & social impacts of organised crime in the European Union. Brussels: European Parliament. Available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/2013/493018/IPOL-JOIN_ET%282013%29493018_EN.pdf.

2012

Levi, M. 2012. How well do anti-money laundering controls work in developing countries?. In: Reuter, P. ed. Draining Development?: Controlling Flows of Illicit Funds From Developing Countries. Washington, DC: World Bank. , pp.373-414.
Levi, M. 2012. Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories. By Federico Varese. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. x+278. $35.00. [Book Review]. American Journal of Sociology 117 (5), pp.1554-1556. (10.1086/664060)
Levi, M. 2012. States, frauds, and the threat of transnational organized crime. Journal of International Affairs 66 (1), pp.37-48.
Levi, M. and Williams, M. L. 2012. eCrime reduction partnership mapping study: final report. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Levi%20Williams%20eCrime%20Reduction%20Partnership%20Mapping%20Study.pdf.

2011

Levi, M. and Williams, M. L. 2011. Mapping cybercrime and its control. Presented at: eCrime Reduction Partnership Business/Government Roundtable, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills London, UK 2011.

2010

Levi, M. 2010. Combating the financing of terrorism: a history and assessment of the control of 'threat finance'. British Journal of Criminology 50 (4), pp.650-669. (10.1093/bjc/azq025)
Levi, M. 2010. Credit fraud. In: Brookman, F. et al., Handbook on Crime. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing. , pp.153-171.
Levi, M. 2010. E-gaming and money laundering risks: a European overview. ERA Forum 10 (4), pp.533-546. (10.1007/s12027-009-0143-2)
Levi, M. 2010. Financial crimes in comparative context. In: Shoham, S. G. , Knepper, P. and Kett, M. eds. International Handbook of Criminology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. , pp.309-342.
Levi, M. 2010. Hitting the suite spot: sentencing frauds. Journal of Financial Crime 17 (1), pp.116-132. (10.1108/13590791011009400)
Levi, M. 2010. Public and private policing of financial crimes: the struggle for co-ordination. Varstvoslovje / Journal of Criminal Justice and Security 12 (4), pp.343-354.
Levi, M. 2010. Serious tax fraud and noncompliance: a review of evidence on the differential impact of criminal and noncriminal proceedings. Criminology & Public Policy 9 (3), pp.493-513. (10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00645.x)
Levi, M. , Karstedt, S. and Ruggiero, V. 2010. Introduction to the BJC special issue on terrorism. British Journal of Criminology 50 (4), pp.617-621. (10.1093/bjc/azq024)

2009

Doig, A. and Levi, M. 2009. Inter-agency work and the UK public sector investigation of fraud, 1996–2006: Joined-up rhetoric and disjointed reality. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy 19 (3), pp.199-215. (10.1080/10439460902863311)
Dorn, N. et al., 2009. Impacts of financial crimes and amenability to control by the FSA : proposed framework for generating data in a comparative manner. Project Report.[Online].London: Financial Services Authority. Available at: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/scale_and_impact_paper.pdf.
Levi, M. 2009. 'Corruption and Money Laundering' by D. Chaikin and J. C. Sharman [Book Review]. Journal of Law and Society 36 (4), pp.589-591. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2009.00486.x)
Levi, M. 2009. Ethnicity, nationality and fraud networks. In: Brants, C. , van der Poel, S. and Bovenkerk, F. eds. Diverse kwesties. Pompe reeks Vol. 56.Utrecht: Willem Pompe Instituut voor Strafwetenschappen. , pp.205-212.
Levi, M. 2009. Financial crimes. In: Tonry, M. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy. Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice New York: Oxford University Press USA. , pp.223-246.
Levi, M. 2009. McMAFIA: crime without frontiers. By Misha Glenny. London: Bodley Head. 2008. [Book Review]. Trends in Organized Crime 12 (1), pp.78-80. (10.1007/s12117-008-9047-8)
Levi, M. 2009. Money-laundering risks and e-gaming: a European overview and assessment. Other. European Gaming and Betting Association. Available at: http://www.egba.eu/pdf/Levi_Final_Money_Laundering_Risks_egaming%20280909.pdf.
Levi, M. 2009. Suite revenge? Policing the economic crisis. Crime, Law, and Deviance Spring , pp.4-5.
Levi, M. 2009. Suite revenge? The shaping of folk devils and moral panics about white-collar crimes. British Journal of Criminology 49 (1), pp.48-67. (10.1093/bjc/azn073)
Levi, M. 2009. White-collar crimes and the fear of crime: a review. In: Simpson, S. S. and Weisburd, D. eds. The Criminology of White-collar Crime. New York: Springer. , pp.79-110. (10.1007/978-0-387-09502-8_5)
Levi, M. and Reuter, P. 2009. Money laundering. In: Tonry, M. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy. Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice New York: Oxford University Press. , pp.356-380.
Levi, M. and Van Duyne, P. 2009. Drugs en geld: Misdaadgeld-beheer en drugsmarkten in Europa. [Drugs and money: managing the drug trade and crime money in Europe]. M. Levi and P. Van Duyne Oisterwijk, Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.

2008

Dorn, N. and Levi, M. 2008. Private-public or public-private? Strategic dialogue on serious crime and terrorism in the EU. Security Journal 22 (4), pp.302-316. (10.1057/palgrave.sj.8350086)
Dorn, N. , Levi, M. and White, S. 2008. Do European procurement rules generate or prevent crime?. Journal of Financial Crime 15 (3), pp.243-260. (10.1108/13590790810882847)
Edwards, A. M. and Levi, M. 2008. Preface: the organization of serious crimes: developments in research and theory. Criminology and Criminal Justice 8 (4), pp.359-361. (10.1177/1748895808097402)
Edwards, A. M. and Levi, M. 2008. Researching the organization of serious crimes. Criminology and Criminal Justice 8 (4), pp.363-388. (10.1177/1748895808097403)
Levi, M. 2008. Alan Doig Fraud Cullompton: Willan, 2006. 254 pp. 19.50 ISBN 101843921723 (pbk) [Book Review]. Criminology and Criminal Justice 8 (4), pp.509-510. (10.1177/1748895808096785)
Levi, M. 2008. Combating identity and other forms of payment fraud in the UK: an analytical history. In: McNally, M. M. and Newman, G. R. eds. Perspectives on identity theft. Crime prevention studies Vol. 23.Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press. , pp.111-132.
Levi, M. 2008. Fraud, honesty and markets. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. eds. The new Oxford companion to law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.473-475.
Levi, M. 2008. Misha Glenny McMAFIA: Crime without Frontiers London: Bodley Head Ltd, 2008. 432 pp. ISBN10: 0224075039 (hbk) [Book Review]. Criminology and Criminal Justice 8 (4), pp.513-515. (10.1177/17488958080080040603)
Levi, M. 2008. Organised crime threat assessments - from an academic's scientific but not wholly theoretical perspective. Presented at: Annual European Police Research and Science Conferences Vienna, Austria 24 November 2008.
Levi, M. 2008. Organized fraud and organizing frauds: unpacking research on networks and organization. Criminology and Criminal Justice 8 (4), pp.389-419. (10.1177/1748895808096470)
Levi, M. 2008. Policing fraud and organised crime. In: Newburn, T. ed. Handbook of policing. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing. , pp.522-552.
Levi, M. 2008. The phantom capitalists: the organisation and control of long-firm fraud. Andover: Ashgate.
Levi, M. 2008. White-collar, organised and cyber crimes in the media: some contrasts and similarities. Crime, Law and Social Change 49 (5), pp.365-377. (10.1007/s10611-008-9111-y)
Levi, M. 2008. White-collar, organised and cyber crimes in the media: some contrasts and similarities. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. eds. The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. , pp.1244-1245.

2007

Belousov, K. et al., 2007. Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings. Qualitative Research 7 (2), pp.155-175. (10.1177/1468794107076019)
Dorn, N. and Levi, M. 2007. East meets West in anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist finance: policy dialogue and differentiation on security, the timber trade and "alternative" banking. Asian Journal of Criminology 3 (1), pp.91-110. (10.1007/s11417-007-9041-0)
Dorn, N. and Levi, M. 2007. European private security, corporate investigation and military services: collective security, market regulation and structuring the public sphere. Policing and Society 17 (3), pp.213-238. (10.1080/10439460701497303)
Levi, M. 2007. Sentencing frauds: a comparative perspective. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform 90 (2/3), pp.158-174.
Levi, M. and Burrows, J. 2007. Measuring the impact of fraud in the UK: a conceptual and empirical journey. British Journal of Criminology 48 (3), pp.293-318. (10.1093/bjc/azn001)
Levi, M. et al. 2007. The nature, extent and economic impact of fraud in the UK. Technical Report.

2006

Levi, M. and Reuter, P. 2006. Money Laundering. Crime and Justice: an Annual Review of Research 34 , pp.289-375.
Dorn, N. and Levi, M. 2006. From Delphi to Brussels, the policy context: crime prophecy, proofing, assessment. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 12 (3-4), pp.213-220. (10.1007/s10610-006-9021-4)
Dorn, N. and Levi, M. 2006. Regulation of insurance and corporate security: Integrating crime and terrorism seriousness into the analysis. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 12 (3-4), pp.257-277. (10.1007/s10610-006-9024-1)
Karstedt, S. , Levi, M. and Godfrey, B. 2006. Introduction. British Journal of Criminology 46 (6), pp.971-975. (10.1093/bjc/azl077)
Levi, M. 2006. The media construction of financial white-collar crimes. British Journal of Criminology 46 (6), pp.1037-1057. (10.1093/bjc/azl079)
Levi, M. and Dorn, N. 2006. Regulation and corporate crime: managers and auditors. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 12 (3-4), pp.229-255. (10.1007/s10610-006-9023-2)

2005

Levi, M. , Nelen, H. and Lankhorst, F. 2005. Lawyers as crime facilitators in Europe: An introduction and overview. Crime, Law and Social Change 42 (2-3), pp.117-121. (10.1007/s10611-005-5654-3)
Middleton, D. J. and Levi, M. 2005. The role of solicitors in facilitating 'Organized Crime': Situational crime opportunities and their regulation. Crime, Law and Social Change 42 (2-3), pp.123-161. (10.1007/s10611-005-5655-2)

2004

Levi, M. and Maguire, E. M. W. 2004. Reducing and Preventing Organised Crime: An Evidence-Based Critique. Crime, Law and Social Change 41 (5), pp.397-469. (10.1023/B:CRIS.0000039600.88691.af)
Bloor, M. et al., 2004. Problems of global governance of seafarers' health and safety [Project Report]. Project Report.Seafarers International Research Centre.
Levi, M. and Van Duyne, P. 2004. Drugs and money: Managing the drug trade and crime-money in Europe. Organizational Crime London: Routledge.
Levi, M. and Wall, D. S. 2004. Technologies, Security, and Privacy in the Post-9/11 European Information Society. Journal of Law and Society 31 (2), pp.194-220. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00287.x)

2003

Honess, T. M. , Charman, E. A. and Levi, M. 2003. Factual and affective/evaluative recall of pretrial publicity: their relative influence on juror reasoning and verdict in a simulated fraud trial. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 33 (7), pp.1404-1416. (10.1111/j.1559-1816.2003.tb01955.x)
Levi, M. , Morgan, J. and Burrows, J. 2003. Enhancing business crime reduction: UK directors' responsibilities to review the impact of crime on business. Security Journal 16 (4), pp.7-27. (10.1057/palgrave.sj.8340143)

2002

Levi, M. 2002. Suite Justice or Sweet Charity? Some Explorations of Shaming and Incapacitating Business Fraudsters. Punishment and Society 4 (2), pp.147-163. (10.1177/14624740222228527)

2001

Levi, M. 2001. Business, cities and fears about crimes. Urban Studies 38 (5-6), pp.849-868. (10.1080/00420980125411)

1999

Levi, M. ed. 1999. Fraud: Organization, motivation and control, Volumes I and II. The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology Vol. 35Hampshire: Ashgate Dartmouth.
Hampton, M. P. and Levi, M. 1999. Fast spinning into oblivion? Recent developments in money-laundering policies and offshore finance centres. Third World Quarterly 20 (3), pp.645-656. (10.1080/01436599913730)

1998

Honess, T. M. , Levi, M. and Charman, E. A. 1998. Juror competence in processing complex information: Implications from a simulation of the Maxwell trial. Criminal Law Review 1998 (Nov), pp.763-773.

1997

Levi, M. 1997. Evaluating the 'new policing': Attacking the money trail of organized crime. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 30 (1), pp.1-25. (10.1177/000486589703000101)

1996

Levi, M. and Nelken, D. eds. 1996. The corruption of politics and the politics of corruption. Oxford: Blackwell.

1995

Levi, M. and Osofsky, L. 1995. Investigating, seizing, and confiscating the proceeds of crime. Working paper. London: Home Office Police Research Group. Available at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/http:/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/prgpdfs/fcdps61.pdf.

1994

Gold, M. and Levi, M. eds. 1994. Money laundering in the UK: An appraisal of suspicion-based reporting. London and Cardiff: Police Foundation and University of Wales.

1993

Levi, M. 1993. The investigation, prosecution, and trial of serious fraud. Royal Commission on Criminal Justice Research Study Vol. 14London: HMSO.

1991

Levi, M. 1991. Customer confidentiality, money-laundering, and police-bank relationships: English law and practice in a global environment. London: Police Foundation.

1990

Levi, M. ed. 1990. Reflections on organised crime: Patterns and control. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol. 37/4Oxford: Blackwell.

1987

Levi, M. 1987. Regulating fraud: white-collar crime and the criminal process. London: Tavistock Publications.

1981

Levi, M. 1981. The phantom capitalists: the organisation and control of long-firm fraud. Cambridge Studies in Criminology Vol. 44London: Heinemann Educational.

Current and Recent Research:

2021-23 A Public Health Approach to Fraud (West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner)

2021-22 Fraud and its relationship to Pandemics and Economic Crises from 1850 to the Present (British Academy)

2020-23 Digital Security by Design Futures Social Sciences Hub+, (Challenge Research Fellow and Co-investigator, UK Research and Innovation)

2021-22 Joint Intelligence Programme Evaluation (Co-Investigator, HM Prison & Probation Service)

2019-20 How online technologies are transforming transnational organised crime, (Economic and Social Research Council, Principal Investigator)

2018-9 Evaluating Criminal Transactional Methods in Cyberspace as understood in an International Context, (Home Office, co-Investigator with Flinders and Georgia State Universities)

2018-20 Case by Case: Building a Database on Cybercriminal Business Models, (Home Office, co-Investigator with Oxford, VU Amsterdam, NSCR Amsterdam, and Michigan State)

2016- Detecting and Preventing Mass-Marketing Fraud, EPSRC (Co-I, with Leicester, UCL and Warwick)

2016- Economic Crime Learning Centre, College of Policing (co-I, with City of London Police, Portsmouth and Warwick)

2016- Demystifying the Corruption Paradox by Exploring Bribery ‘at Home’, British Academy/ Leverhulme Small Grant (coI, with Manchester, Utrecht)

2015 Cyber-Related Economic Crime and Implications for Policing Approaches (PI, City of London Corporation)

2013- What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (ESRC/ College of Policing)

2013 The Economic, Financial & Social Impacts of Organised Crime in the European Union (European Parliament)

2013- Identifying and Modelling Victim, Business, Regulatory and Malware Behaviours in a Changing Cyberthreat Landscape (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

2013- Corporate Insider Threat Detection (Oxford, Leicester and Cardiff University joint project, Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure)

2011-3 Evaluating Country Performance in Anti-Money Laundering: the Search for Rationality and Legitimacy (American Bar Foundation and British Academy, in collaboration with IMF)

2012 The Protection of Whistleblowers: the feasibility of a legal instrument on the protection of employees who make disclosures in the public interest (Stephenson, P. and Levi, M.) (European Committee on Legal Co-operation, Council of Europe)

2011-2 eCrime Reduction Partnership Mapping Study (Nominet Trust)

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Criminology and Policing at undergraduate and postgraduate level

Career Overview

1991- Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University;
1989-1991: Reader in Criminology, University of Wales, Cardiff;
1987-1989: Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University College, Cardiff;
1975-1987: Lecturer in Criminology, University College Cardiff.

Education and Qualifications

2007 DSc (Econ.) Cardiff University (Higher Doctorate)

1979 PhD Southampton University

1972 Postgraduate Diploma in Criminology Cambridge University

1971 BA Oxford University

Honours and awards

Al Thani Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Center Award for Corruption Research and Education 2020
American Society of Criminology 2019, Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award, Division of White-Collar & Corporate Crime, .
British Society of Criminology 2019, Outstanding Achievement Award,
Tackling Economic Crime Awards 2019, Lifetime Achievement Award, .
American Society of Criminology Sellin-Glueck Award 2014 for contributions to comparative and international research on white-collar and organised crime
International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC) 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award
American Society of Criminology 2001, Distinguished Research Award, Division of International Criminology
ESRC Professorial Fellowship 2007-2010
2007 D.Sc. (Econ.) Cardiff University

Professional memberships

Learned Societies

Elected Fellow of Learned Society of Wales
Elected Fellow of Association for Learned Societies in Social Sciences (2006-)
Member of Executive Committee and Council, British Society of Criminology 1990-2005
Member, Council of Europe Criminological and Scientific Council
Chair Wales & the West branch, British Society of Criminology (1995-2005; co-chair 2014-present)
Elected to Board of European Society of Criminology 2006-8; 2016--7
Programme Planning Committee, American Society of Criminology 2006-7
Fellows Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2006-7

Other "Evidence of Esteem":

2026 Distinguished Fellow, Law Faculty, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2025 Member of Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC)

2014-present Member of Academic Advisory Committee, Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, Europol.

2015- Member, UK Cabinet Office Counter-Fraud Cross Sector Advisory Board
2015- Committee Member, European Criminal Law Association – ECLA (UK)
2015 Member, Center for Global Development Working Group on Illicit Money Flows.
2014-2020 Advisory Group Member, Internet-Facilitated Organised Crime Threat Assessment, EC3, Europol
2014- Member, RCUK's Partnership in Conflict, Crime & Security Research Strategic Advisory Group
2014 Honorary Fellow, CIPFA
2014 Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (currently Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI)
2013 Senior Research Fellow, RAND Europe
2013 Scientific Expert, Ad hoc Drafting Group on Transnational Organised Crime (PC-GR-COT), Council of Europe
2013-4 Member, US National Academy of Sciences Committee, Illicit Tobacco Market: Collection and Analysis of the International Experience
2012- President, US National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium
2011- Member, Group of Experts on Corruption, European Commission
2011- Non-executive member, Independent Crime Statistics Advisory Committee, UK Statistics Authority and ONS
2011- Advisory Board, Transparency International National Integrity Study
2011- Member, Economics and Resource Analysis Unit Advisory Panel on Security and Civil Liberties, Home Office
2010- Member, Organised Crime Council, World Economic Forum
2010- Member, Peer Review College, Economic and Social Research Council
2010- Advisor, Identity Crime Strategic Threat Assessment, National Fraud Authority
2009- Member, Economics and Resource Analysis Unit Advisory Panel on Crime and Policing, Home Office
2009- Member, Expert Group for Review of Serious Organised Crime, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, UK
2009- Advisory Panel, Audit Commission review of Protecting the Public Purse
2008-2010 Advisory Panel, UK Drug Policy Commission
2007-2008 Member, EC Money Laundering Statistics Sub-Group
2007- Member, EC Proceeds of Crime Confiscation Expert Working Group and Asset Recovery Office Working Group
Awarded the American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology's Outstanding Achievement Award
ESRC representative on ESRC/EPSRC team assessing research proposals on technology and crime reduction (MIAP initiative)
Editor in chief, Criminology and Criminal Justice (official journal of British Society of Criminology)
Senior criminology editor, Crime, Law and Social Change.
Editorial board member: British Journal of Criminology; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research; Global Crime; Howard Journal of Criminal Justice; and Security Journal
Reviewer of research proposals for international research councils
External Member, Cambridge Institute of Criminology Teaching and Learning Review
External adviser, LSE Promotions Committee
Chair, Wales & West of England Branch, Executive Committee and Council, British Society of Criminology
Adviser to Prime Minister's Strategy Unit on confiscation of proceeds of crime.
Elected sole British member of Council of Europe's Criminological and Scientific Research Committee
Member, Council of Europe Reflections Committee on the 1990 Money-Laundering Convention
Consultant to the Commission for Africa on the prevention and recovery of the proceeds of corruption
Organised academic seminars for senior management of Serious and Organised Crime Agency
Senior policy adviser on law enforcement issues, Transparency International
Member of Law Society Money Laundering Task Force
Specialist Parliamentary Adviser, Welsh Affairs Committee, on Policing and Anti-Social Behaviour in Wales
Member, Home Office Consultative Group on Identity Fraud
National Audit Office panel for the National Audit Office and HM Treasury Guide: Good Practice in Tackling External Fraud
Fraud Advisory Panel's Sub-Committee Reviewing Anti-Money Laundering Initiatives in the UK
Expert Advisory Group to UK Information Commissioner

Academic positions

1989-1991: Reader in Criminology, University of Wales, Cardiff;
1987-1989: Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University College, Cardiff;
1975-1987: Lecturer in Criminology, Cardiff College University.

Speaking engagements

Regular keynote speaker and panellist at practitioner and academic conferences throughout the world. In 2025-2 to date, these have included Cambridge Evidence Based Policing Conference and Economic Crime Symposium; European and American Societies of Criminology; Oslo Police University; Stockholm Organised Crime Conference, UN Convention against Corruption working meeting, Doha; Santiago Chile; Bank of Bahamas Evidence Based Money Laundering Conference, British Virgin Islands Financial Industry Conference; Charles University Prague White-Collar Crime Sentencing Conference; International Anti-Corruotion Academy, Austria.

Committees and reviewing

2021- EC Supra National Risk Assessment (SNRA) 2021 – Member, Horizontal working group

2021- European Research Council, ERC StG SH2 evaluation panel

2019- Member, Law Society Money Laundering Task Force (now Economic Crime Committee)

Formerly Area Editor, Criminology and Psychology, Journal of Cybersecurity

Formerly Senior Editor, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Formerly, Editorial Board, Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, International Journal for Crime and Justice, Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Security Journal, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Crime, Law, and Social Change.

2006-9 Editor—In-Chief, Criminology and Criminal Justice.

2004-12 Editorial Board member, British Journal of Criminology

Fomerly Editorial board, Champ Pénal, Journal of Law and Society, and Consultant Editor, Company Lawyer.

Reviewer of research proposals and studies and of elite research posts for Australian,British,Canadian, Dutch, Flemish,Hong Kong,Irish, Israeli, Norwegian and Swiss Humanities and Social Science Research Councils;for the US National Science Foundation;for the UK Home Office; and for the European Commission.Regular reviewer of articles for other journals, including Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, American Sociological Review, Asian Journal of Criminology,CanadianJournal of Sociology,Criminology,Criminology & PublicPolicy,International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Journal of Quantitative Criminology,Regulation and Governance,Law & Policy,Law & Society Review,Law & Social Inquiry, Corporate Governance,Journal of Financial Crime and Public Administration,Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, World Development.

Reviewer of proposals and manuscripts for publishers, including Oxford University Press (UK and US), Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Princeton University Press, Queen's Ontario UP, Stanford University Press, Toronto UP, Yale University Press, and non-University presses such as Ashgate, Edward Elgar, Policy Press, Routledge, Sage, Springer.

The criminological, socio-legal and economic dimensions of the following crime areas and their control:

Money Laundering
fraud
organised crime
Cybercrime
Terror Finance

Current supervision

Contact Details

[email protected]
+44 29208 74376
Glamorgan Building, Room 1.23, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA

Research themes

Specialisms

Criminology
Crime policy
fraud
Organised crime
money laundering

Lessons should be learned for future pandemics and economic shocks

Professor Michael Levi

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