Private Policing of Economic Crime
Private Policing of Economic Crime

Author: Petter Gottschalk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000344312

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This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. The theory of convenience applies to the suspected crime, while the maturity model applies to the conducted investigation. Private policing of economic crime by fraud examiners in internal investigations is a topic of increasing concern as there is a growing business for law firms and auditing firms to conduct inquiries and reviews when there is suspicion of misconduct, wrongdoing, and crime by white-collar offenders. The key features of this book are the application of a structural model for convenience theory and the application of a maturity model for fraud examinations. The structural model assesses convenience themes for motive, opportunity, and willingness in each case study, while the maturity model assesses the level of private policing maturity in fraud examinations. For the first time, two emerging frameworks to study white-collar offenses and private policing maturity are introduced and applied to a number of cases from Denmark, Iceland, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. This book will be essential to those studying law, business, and criminology, as well as practicing fraud examiners.

Economic Crime
Economic Crime

Author: Mark Button

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-24

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1000573125

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This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional gain, have devastating consequences for the prosperity of economic life. While most police forces in the UK and the USA have an ‘economic crime’ department, and many European bodies such as Europol use the term and develop strategies and structures to deal with it, it is yet to grain traction as a widely used term in the academic community. Economic Crime: From Conception to Response aims to change that and covers: definitions of the key premises of economic crime as the academic sub-discipline within criminology; an overview of the key research on each of the crimes associated with economic crime; public, private and global responses to economic crime across its different forms and sectors of the economy, both within the UK and globally. This book is an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners engaged with aspects of economic crime, as well as the related areas of financial crime, white-collar crime and crimes of the powerful.

Private Policing
Private Policing

Author: Clifford D. Shearing

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1987-06

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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The increased use of private policing has led to a growing awareness that policing can no longer be thought of as just being about crime, but as the enforcement of order and the way it can be both established and maintained. Private Policing charts the development of social control mechanisms -- both public and private -- from historical, legal, ethical and managerial perspectives.

The Privatization of Policing
The Privatization of Policing

Author: Brian Forst

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0878407359

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In this critique of privatization, Manning focuses on issues of free market theory and management practices such as total quality management that he believes are harmful to the traditional police mandate to control crime. He questions the appropriateness of strategies that emphasize service to consumers. For Forst, the free market paradigm and economic incentives do not carry the same stigma. He argues that neither public nor private policing should have a monopoly on law enforcement activities, and he predicts an even more varied mix of public and private police activities than are currently available. Following the two main sections of the book, each author assesses the other's contribution, reflecting on not just their points of departure but also on the areas in which they agree.

The Privatization of Police in America
The Privatization of Police in America

Author: James F. Pastor

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003-10-28

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0786415746

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Today the private security industry employs approximately 1.5 million people and spends over $52 billion annually. In contrast, public police forces employ approximately 600,000 people and spend $30 billion annually. Private policing promises to be a big part of the response to today's increased security concerns, as citizens realize that security is much more than the presence of guards and the perception of safety. This book addresses the impact and implications of private policing on public streets, and begins with a look at private policing from conceptual, historical, economic, legal and functional perspectives. These approaches provide the background for the text, which focuses on a private policing patrol program in a community on the south side of Chicago. The text also demonstrates a number of substantive legal and public policy issues which directly or indirectly relate to the provision of security services; some people see the need for a "dual system" of policing--one for the wealthy and one for the poor--and others see the provision of private security as the primary protective resource in contemporary America. The author also examines how private policing is different from and similar to public policing.

Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime
Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime

Author: s W. Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This paper examines the role of private agencies in the governance of neo-liberal market economies. Specifically, it documents the growth and evolution of the 'forensic accounting and corporate investigation (FACI) industry' as a provider of investigative and adjudicative services in cases of economic crime, and explores the implications of this growth for the policing division of labour in the financial field. In revealing a relationship between the FACI industry and the police that is characterized more by 'bifurcation' than 'blurring', the results of this research challenge the common mantra that contemporary forms of governance are marked by the convergence of 'public' and 'private' within multi-nodal networks of risk and security. Herein, the paper charts a novel theoretical course for the analysis of governance within the field of financial relationships and transactions.

Policing for Profit
Policing for Profit

Author: Nigel South

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780803981751

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This volume examines the role of private investigators, industrial security and other private policing, and addresses key problems of public accountability associated with commercial policing.

Investigating Financial Crime
Investigating Financial Crime

Author: Petter Gottschalk

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9781634826211

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This book presents descriptions of theories about white-collar crime offenders and offenses. A case study is developed from a sample of 369 white-collar criminals generated by extracting newspaper stories and supplemented by court records. Numerous approaches to white-collar crime are organized and applied to the database. Theories are cataloged and tested against empirical data. The main aim of this book is to present a framework for a general theory of white-collar crime based on a number of sub-theories. Over the years, from research done on white-collar crime, three major characteristics have been attributed. First there is economics, where non-violent acts are committed for financial gain. Next there is organization, where offenders take advantage of professional authority and power to commit crime. Finally, there is behavior, where a number of deviant personality traits are often found.Criminal investigation is a procedure or method for reconstructing the past. Its purpose is creating an account of what has happened, how it happened, and who did what to make it happen. Private investigation cases are evaluated based on a number of theories and criteria. The success or failure of a private investigation can be measured at different stages in the process: basis for initiation of investigation, work methodology, investigation results, and investigation consequences. This book presents case studies of private investigation reports by financial crime specialists and fraud examiners.