Contract Cheating in Higher Education

Sarah Elaine Eaton is Associate Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Guy J. Curtis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia. Brenda M. Stoesz is Senior Faculty Specialist at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Joseph Clare is Associate Professor of Criminology in the Law School at the University of Western Australia. Kiata Rundle is a PhD candidate in Psychology and Criminology at Murdoch University, Australia. Josh Seeland is Manager of Library Services and Chair of the Academic Integrity Advisory Committee at Assiniboine Community College, Canada.   

Chapter 1: Introduction: Contract cheating and introduction to the problem.- Chapter 2: What can we learn from measuring crime when looking to quantify the prevalence and incidence of contract cheating?- Chapter 3: Limitations of contract cheating research.- Chapter 4: Essay mills and contract cheating from a legal point of view.- Chapter 5: Leveraging college copyright ownership against file-sharing and contract cheating websites.- Chapter 6: The encouragement of file sharing behaviours through technology and social media: Impacts on student cheating behaviours and academic piracy.- Chapter 7: Higher education assessment design.- Chapter 8: Critical thinking as an antidote to contract cheating.- Chapter 9: Contract cheating and the Dark Triad traits.- Chapter 10: Contract cheating: The influence of attitudes and emotions.- Chapter 11: Applying situational crime prevention techniques to contract cheating.- Chapter 12: Presentation, Properties and Provenance: the three Ps of identifying evidence of contract-cheating in student assignments.- Chapter 13: "(Im)possible to prove": Formalising academic judgement evidence in contract cheating cases using bibliographic forensics.- Chapter 14: Aligning academic quality and standards with academic integrity.- Chapter 15: Addressing contract cheating through staff-student partnerships.- Chapter 16: The extortionate cost of contract cheating.- Chapter 17: The rise of contract cheating in graduate education.- Chapter 18: Listening to ghosts: A qualitative study of narratives from contract cheating writers from the 1930s onwards.- Chapter 19: Assessment brokering and collaboration: Ghostwriter and student academic literacies.- Chapter 20: Conclusion.