My research examines illicit trade, economic crime, and the criminal infiltration and exploitation of licit sectors, with a particular focus on high-value unique goods.
My work sits at the intersection of criminology, economics, and the study of licit and illicit trade. My current research examines structural vulnerabilities to criminal infiltration and exploitation within the luxury watch sector, with particular attention to trade structures and the role of valuation.
My broader research interests include illicit trade and economic crime, subversive crime, crimes related to high-value unique goods, environmental criminology, organisational criminology, and grey criminology.
Illicit trade and economic crime are examined through the sectors and economic structures in which they emerge. Particular attention is paid to vulnerabilities in legitimate economic systems, including the ways in which licit sectors and commercial practices may be exposed to illicit infiltration and exploitation.
A particular focus lies on the vulnerability of legitimate economic environments to (subversive) crime. This includes examining how economic structures, business processes, professional practices, and legal conditions may be exploited, circumvented, or compromised, and how illicit activity can become embedded within otherwise licit sectors.
A broader conceptual interest lies in the “grey” spaces between the licit and the illicit, with a focus on how the boundaries between them are blurred and negotiated. This includes examining the systems, organisations, actors, and practices through which distinctions between licit and illicit activity are constructed, contested, and reconfigured.
PRICELESS Research Consortium · Maastricht University
Faculty of Law · Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
Forensics, Criminology and Law
Master's Honours Research Track
Maastricht University · Faculty of Law
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