Frederike Oberheim , Jon Davies , Celine Giese , Marieke Kluin , Nicholas Lord
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Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US
This article examines the value of using publicly available data to analyse financial violations and regulatory enforcement actions in the UK and the US, drawing on a first-of-its-kind open-source dataset – the Violation Tracker. Through descriptive analyses, the study explores longitudinal patterns of corporate offending, focusing on corporate characteristics and sectoral enforcement dynamics. The findings highlight jurisdictional differences: in the UK, anti-money laundering (AML) deficiencies and tax violations dominate, with a notable increase in AML deficiencies since 2020, particularly in real estate and business services. In contrast, the US landscape is characterized by widespread investor protection violations, particularly in the financial industry, and exhibit stable trends over time. In both countries, the financial industry receives high penalties compared to other industries. These patterns underscore the role of regulatory frameworks and enforcement priorities in shaping observable corporate compliance. This study illustrates what insights can and cannot be generated from open-source data for the analysis of financial violations. It also engages with theoretical frameworks such as life-course criminology, advancing the understanding of corporate crime trajectories over time. The research contributes to current debates on regulatory transparency, corporate accountability, and the methodological challenges of conducting robust empirical research using publicly available regulatory data.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest.
Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.