Alan Doig

Fraud

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year. This book provides coverage of the main issues involved in fraud, its definition, costs, the nature of the offenders involved in committing fraud, and the issues involved in fraud investigation.

Produktdetails

• Crime and Society Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781843921738
• ISBN-10: 1843921731
• Artikelnr.: 22179773

Autorenporträt

Professor Alan Doig ran the Fraud Studies Unit at Teeside University until his retirement in 2010. Recent publications include the Handbook on Fraud Investigation and Prevention (Gower, 2010), and Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure (LexisNexis, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Fraud
the academic and practitioner contexts 2. What is fraud? 3. The cost of fraud 4. Who commits fraud, and what types of fraud? 5. From need to greed
why is fraud committed? 6. Overspill
old frauds, new frauds and fraud in other criminal activities 7. How fraud is dealt with
investigations 8. Regulation, compliance and audit 9. In-house approaches 10. Investigation frameworks 11. Punishment, asset recovery and prevention 12. Conclusion: the futures for fraud?