Welcome to Lyna Toudert who has joined the EconCrime Lab. She will examine fraud sentences in the Canadian criminal courts and assess whether the social status of the accused influences the severity of their sentencing.

Two preprints, completed by lab members, have been published on arxiv: Mapping the DeFi Crime Landscape: An Evidence-based Picture and Conti Inc.: Understanding the Internal Discussions of a large Ransomware-as-a-Service Operator with Machine Learning

Catherine Gaumond joins the lab! For her masters thesis, she will explore how money laundering charges are prosecuted, adjudicated, and penalized within the Quebec judicial process.