Fraud

Alan Doig is Visiting Professor, Centre for Public Services Management, Liverpool Business School and Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNCAC mentor in Thailand, and Resident Advisor for the Council of Europe Prevention of Corruption project for Turkey. He has been Professor of Public Services Management at Teesside Business School and Liverpool Business School where he ran the Fraud Management Studies Units which taught the only MAs in Fraud Managment and Financial Investigation and Financial Crime in the UK for police, and public and private sector fraud practitioners. He has written and edited books on Fraud; Corruption and Democratisation; Sleaze: Politics, Private Interests and Public Reaction; and Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics. He has served as a Board member of the Standards Board of England, is a Director of the North-east Fraud Forum, was a member of the Group of Specialists on Public Ethics at Local level, Steering Committee on Local and Regional Democracy, Council of Europe, and was the Editor and part-author of the original UNODC Technical Guide for the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Book Overview and Structure; I: Themes, Trends and Perspectives; 1: Trends and Costs of Fraud; 2: Why Commit Fraud?; 3: The Changing Fraud Environment; 4: Policing and Regulating Financial Services; 5: Policing and Regulating the Professionals; 6: Non-Law Enforcement Approaches to the Investigation of Fraud; 7: Accounts and Management Fraud; 8: Law Enforcement Approaches to the Investigation of Fraud; II: Fraud: How to Investigate �€�; 9: Criminal Fraud; 10: Corporate Fraud; 11: Local Government Benefit Fraud; 12: Procurement Fraud; 13: Company Investigations; 14: Charity Fraud; 15: Solicitor Fraud; 16: Insurance Fraud; 17: Telecoms Fraud; 18: Employee Fraud; 19: Bribery and Corruption; 20: Fraud as a Financial Investigation; 21: Using Intelligence; 22: Using the Internet as an Investigative Tool; 23: Using Digital Forensics; III: Prevention; 24: Managing Fraud Risk in a Regulated Environment; 25: The Role of Corporate Governance; 26: The Role of Audit; 27: Whistleblowing; 28: How to Prevent Internal Fraud; IV: Sanction Routes; 29: The Disciplinary Route; 30: The Confiscation Route; 31: The Civil Route; 32: The Prosecution Route