Editorial: Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Illicit Trade, Financial Crime, and Compliance (JITFCC)
Editor’s Introduction
Abstract
It is a privilege to introduce the inaugural issue of the Journal of Illicit Trade, Financial Crime, and Compliance (JITFCC). The creation of this journal reflects an urgent global need: to better understand, map, and respond to the accelerating complexity of illicit markets, the proliferation of financial crime, and the widening compliance challenges that confront governments, international organizations, regulatory bodies, private-sector actors, and civil society.
Illicit trade today presents itself as a multidimensional phenomenon that transcends borders, jurisdictions, regulatory frameworks, and technological divides. Whether we are examining the illicit flow of goods, the circumvention of sanctions regimes, the exploitation of financial infrastructures, or the governance failures that motivate or enable criminal activity, it is clear that these issues cannot be studied in isolation. They unfold across interconnected networks of commerce, politics, finance, and technology. For this reason, JITFCC is conceived as a deliberately interdisciplinary platform — one that welcomes expertise from criminology, law, economics, political science, international relations, finance, public administration, data science, and operational practice.
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