Maršavelski, AleksandarBraithwaite, John2021-12-092021-12-092202-8005http://hdl.handle.net/1885/255055Cohen and Machalek’s (1988) evolutionary ecological theory of crime explains why obscure forms of predation can be the most lucrative. Sutherland explained that it is better to rob a bank at the point of a pen than of a gun. The US Savings and Loans scandal of the 1980s suggested ‘the best way to rob a bank is to own one’. Lure constituted by the anomie of warfare and transition to capitalism in former Yugoslavia revealed that the best way to rob a bank is to control the regulatory system: that is, to control a central bank. This makes possible theft of all the people’s money in a society. The criminological imagination must attune to anomie created by capitalism, and to the evolutionary ecology of lure.application/pdfen-AU© The Author(s) 2018https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Anomiebank crimecapitalismevolutionary ecological theorywar201810.5204/ijcjsd.v7i1.4662020-11-23Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License