MSc Financial Crime and Compliance in Digital Societies (top-up) (blended learning)

This unit teaches you about the processes and approaches that underpin the production of data, evidence and intelligence on financial crime and compliance; how you can go about undertaking your own empirical research on financial crime or compliance; and how you can evaluate how robust and credible existing financial crime and compliance data are for informing company policies and strategies. The unit will enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in designing, conducting and interpreting evidence-based research to complement the subject matter knowledge accumulated from your career experience and compliance practice . The unit introduces you to methods for measuring and understanding compliance related issues, as well as tools for evaluating whether policies on financial crime and compliance actually 'work' in practice, what the impacts of any given policy are, and how you can ascertain whether such insights are robust and reliable (i.e., evidence-based policies vs. policy-based evidence).

Your organisations will benefit from having senior compliance practitioners with knowledge and expertise to ensure policies and strategies are problem-oriented, evidence-based and evaluated over time to ensure optimum efficiency and impact.You will benefit from learning how to 'make sense' of social scientific data and evidence, and to be critical in how you scrutinise research findings before evaluating whether they can form the basis of business strategies or feed into their decision-making. You will learn about the process of undertaking systematic and rigorous research that will enable you to design and direct the creation of evidence and intelligence for your organisation, as well as to interpret and assess the research findings of academics, NGOs and others that may be of use to your organisation.  Such knowledge might also be useful for those looking to undertake a more advanced research degree (e.g., PhD, ProfDoc).
 

 

CRIM70023 FCC Online Condition (Programme 10177)

The unit aims to introduce  students to the processes and approaches that underpin the production of data, evidence and intelligence on financial crime, compliance and non-compliance. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop and plan their own financial crime or compliance-related empirical research. It also enables students to evaluate the robustness and credibility of existing data and measures related to financial crime and compliance, for informing their organisational policies and practices. 

Week 1: Identifying Researchable Financial Crime and Compliance Questions
Week 2: Research Design and Strategy for Financial Crime and Compliance Research
Week 3: Designs and Methods for FCC Research
Week 4: Measuring Compliance - The Challenges
Week 5: Consolidation Week
Week 6: Quantitative Approaches to Compliance Research
Week 7: Qualitative Approaches to Compliance Research
Week 8: Mixed Strategy Research and Compliance
Week 9: Making Sense of Compliance Data - Corruption Statistics and Illicit Financial Flows
Week 10: Revision Week
 

Blended learning for distance-learning students, through interactive online learning materials (developed with/supported by Transnational Education (TNE)) and a hybrid weekend ‘Masterclass’ held at UoM and online.

Online asynchronous learning materials include text, videos, reading list, tasks, quizzes and discussion forums. Students can meet course tutors one-on-one for further discussion, guidance, assessment feedback etc (online).

The online Community Area provides a range of resources to help students use the VLE; engage with materials and courses provided by the library; develop their academic skills; and engage with Study Skills workshops.
 

By the end of the unit, students should be able to:

Identify researchable questions for undertaking empirical research on financial crime and compliance, and explain the processes involved in the production and interpretation of data, evidence, and intelligence related to financial crime and compliance. 
 

Justify research design choices, using appropriate academic and methodological literature. Reflect on the ethical and practical considerations of generating or using data, evidence or intelligence related to financial crime and compliance.  

Design appropriate research methods to collect, analyse, and interpret data on financial crime or compliance. 

Communicate key issues in research design and practice. 

• Research Questions 1000 words (30%)
• Research Design 2500 words (70%)

• Bryman, (2021) Bryman Social Research Methods (6th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   
• King, R.D. & Wincup, E. (2008) Doing Research on Crime and Justice (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
   
• Magetti, M., Gilardi, F. and Radaelli, C (2013) Designing Research in the Social Sciences. London: Sage. 
   
• Rorie, M. & van Rooij, B. (2022) (eds.) Measuring Compliance: Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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