Frauds and Financial Crimes

ISBN-13: 9781032015330 / Miękka / 2023 / 118 str.

Opis

This edited volume provides a contemporary overview of major issues and control strategies associated with fraud and financial crime, including prevention, public ethics, compliance mechanisms, and law enforcement in England and Wales.

Spis treści

Introduction

Alan Doig and Michael Levi

1. Frauds and Financial Crimes: National Strategic Responses

Alan Doig and Michael Levi

2. A case of arrested development? Delivering the UK National Fraud Strategy within competing policing policy priorities

Alan Doig and Michael Levi

3. Understanding the police response to fraud: the challenges in configuring a response to a low-priority crime on the rise

Michael Skidmore, Janice Goldstraw-White and Martin Gill

4. When opportunity knocks: mobilizing capabilities on serious organized economic crime

Kenneth Murray

5. For fraud, look under ‘serious and organized crime’

Simon Avery

6. Implementing a divergent response? The UK approach to bribery in international and domestic contexts

Nicholas Lord, Alan Doig, Michael Levi, Karin van Wingerde and Katie Benson

7. Tracking the international proceeds of corruption and the challenges of national boundaries and national agencies: the UK example

Jackie Harvey

8. Estate agents’ perspectives of anti-money laundering compliance—four key issues in the UK property market

Ilaria Zavoli and Colin King

9. Forensic accounting services in English local government and the counter-fraud agenda

Mohd Hadafi Sahdan, Christopher J. Cowton and Julie E. Drake

10. Local government ethics in England: how is local ownership working?

Alan Doig

11. Councillor ethics: a review of the Committee on Standards In Public Life’s ‘Local Government Ethical Standards’

Jonathan Rose and Colin Copus

12. Fraud: from national strategies to practice on the ground—a regional case study

Alan Doig

O autorze

Alan Doig is currently Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He developed the first MA in Fraud Management for UK police, public and private sector investigators and investigation managers. He is author and editor of practitioner and academic reports, articles and books on fraud, financial crime and public ethics; the books include Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics, Fraud, and Fraud: The Counter-fraud Practitioners Handbook. He was the Council of Europe’s full-time Resident Advisor in Turkey for a public ethics and prevention of corruption project and a resident UNODC UNCAC mentor to Thailand. Since then he has worked for various organisations, including the World Bank, OECD, Council of Europe, and the UNDP.

Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University. He has an international reputation in academic and policy-oriented research on money laundering, corruption, cybercrimes, transnational organised crime and white-collar crimes. He has been advisor to the European Commission and Parliament, Europol, Council of Europe, UN and World Economic Forum, and UK government departments. His books include The Phantom Capitalists and Regulating Fraud. He has received major research prizes from the British and American Societies of Criminology, the first lifetime Tackling Economic Crime Award in the UK in 2019, and the Al Thani Rule of Law Committee/UNODC Corruption Research and Education prize in 2020.