Purpose

Financial crime costs the world economy more than $1tn. Yet policing responses continue to apply traditional law enforcement methods to detect, identify and disrupt criminal actors in financial systems. The purpose of this paper is to challenge existing thinking around law enforcement practices in financial crime within an Australian context, by presenting an alternative model grounded in management cybernetics and systemic design (SD), which the author terms “cyber-systemics”.

Design/methodology/approach

This study reflects on prior research work across cybernetics and SD to suggest an integrated approach as a conceptually useful basis for considering regulation of financial crime, and to demonstrate utility using a case study.

Findings

The Fintel Alliance between financial crime regulators and financial institutions in Australia demonstrates a strong connection with, and example of, this study’s cyber-systemic regulatory framework. It will be demonstrated that the form of co-design framework offered under cyber-systemics is both consistent with cybernetic and SD literature, but also a means of avoiding regulatory disconnection in times of change and disruption. This study also invites consideration of how future forms of governance might be structured using cyber-systemics as a conceptual backbone.

Research limitations/implications

This work proposes a novel methodology at odds with traditional law enforcement ways of doing, inevitably requiring a change of regulatory mindset. In addition, this paper is purely conceptual and therefore more research on an empirical basis is required to prove the potential benefits in a real-world regulatory environment.

Originality/value

This is (to the author’s knowledge) the first conceptual exploration of blending SD and management cybernetics in the field of criminal law regulation.

中文翻译：

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澳大利亚利用网络系统打击金融犯罪的案例

目的

金融犯罪使世界经济损失超过 1 万亿美元。然而，警务响应继续采用传统的执法方法来检测、识别和破坏金融系统中的犯罪分子。本文的目的是通过提出一种基于管理控制论和系统设计 (SD) 的替代模型，挑战澳大利亚背景下围绕金融犯罪执法实践的现有思维，作者将其称为“网络系统学”。

设计/方法/方法

本研究反映了控制论和 SD 的先前研究工作，以提出一种综合方法，作为考虑金融犯罪监管的概念上有用的基础，并使用案例研究证明效用。

发现

澳大利亚金融犯罪监管机构和金融机构之间的 Fintel 联盟证明了与本研究的网络系统监管框架的紧密联系和示例。将证明在网络系统下提供的协同设计框架的形式既与控制论和 SD 文献一致，也是在变化和中断时期避免监管脱节的一种手段。本研究还邀请考虑如何使用网络系统作为概念支柱来构建未来的治理形式。

研究限制/影响

这项工作提出了一种与传统执法方式不同的新方法，不可避免地需要改变监管思维。此外，本文纯粹是概念性的，因此需要更多的实证研究来证明现实世界监管环境中的潜在好处。

原创性/价值

这是（据作者所知）在刑法监管领域融合 SD 和管理控制论的第一次概念探索。