... with criminals and white-collar crime prevention experts, and responses were subjected to qualitative content analysis. Findings The interviews and survey revealed concrete techniques for creating funds for bribery and transferring bribes to counterparties. The results indicate that the compliance mechanisms...

...‐collar crime Fraud Criminals Securities regulators at the federal, state, and international level have expressed concern about the dramatic growth of affinity fraud, and since 1998 affinity fraud has been ranked one of the top five investment practices (Fairfax, 2002‐2003 ; NASAA, 2011...

... Criminals Fraud Occupational fraud White‐collar offenders Prevention Detection Attributes Characteristics Perpetrators For 40 years, Bernie Madoff, an affable crook who mingled with the country club elite, operated a Ponzi scheme that is believed to have defrauded investors of an estimated...

...Michael Cain Purpose This paper aims to develop a utility maximising framework for criminal behaviour and to consider a Markowitz‐type utility function, centred at current wealth, for a representative criminal. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a conceptual discussion...

...George Peter Gilligan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider organized crime as various forms of business activity which may or may not have attracted the label of criminality. In particular, how perceptions of legitimacy and the effects of other normative factors will influence strongly...

... on the workings of the regulatory authorities. Paul Larsson can be contacted at: paul.larsson@phs.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Criminal law, police, prosecutors and the court system deal with a minority of the acts labelled economic crime. The dark numbers for many types of economic...

... on the details kept at Companies House will be unaware of any criminal activity and using the company's own well‐established credit rating will dispatch goods to the fake address. There will always be at least two direct victims of corporate ID fraud. The company whose details are taken and any other...