ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses important topics including organized crime, money laundering, cyber crime, corruption in law enforcement agencies and whistle blowing. It focuses on how strategies for the use of intelligence might combat financial crime, and the uniqueness in this approach lies able to explain intelligence and intelligence processes in the wider context of knowledge and knowledge management. The book considers how competitive environments, goals can seem to legitimize all kinds of means, and how culture can exert a role in relation to what is seen as acceptable or unacceptable behaviour by individuals. Intelligence can provide the basis for opening a new criminal case, it can be applied to the investigation of existing criminal cases, it can be used to reallocate investigative resources based on new crime patterns and actors, and it can be used for preventive measures.
