... of transnational economic crime by discussing the case of foreign whistleblowers. Design/methodology/approach This paper has been developed from a literature review carried out as part of a wider study into policing international bribery. Findings This paper shows that extraterritorial application of US...

... and why people join them. Design/methodology/approach This paper has developed from a structured literature review carried out as part of a wider study into policing pyramid schemes. Findings This paper identifies a range of reasons why people join pyramid schemes. Some of these reasons...

... scale government assistance programmes to businesses and individuals, far more opportunities were created from COVID-19 than in previous eras. Social implications The study concludes with a discussion of the policy implications for prevention, resilience and for private and public policing...

... Cyber fraud Infodemic Pandemic Policing We attempt to formulate a COVID-19-themed cyber fraud taxonomy by discussing some of the cyber fraud incidents we have observed in academic literature, law enforcement agency publications and industry insight report post-COVID. Instead of discussing...

...Brian Nussbaum; Jeffery Ernest Doherty Purpose This paper aims to examine the many unusual roles played by the Italian Guardia di Finanza (GdF), and how that unique blend of missions sometimes overlaps as much with conceptions of domestic security as it does with the policing of financial crimes...

... semi-structured interviews with 33 corporate investigators in Australia. Findings This paper highlights the complexities that surround corporate investigations and identifies nine attributes critical for investigative success. The findings identify some commonalities with police–detective skills...

...Julian King; Alan Doig Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how a large UK police force – Greater Manchester Police (GMP) – sought during a period of continuing budget reductions to take a cost-effective approach to certain types of fraud through the establishment of a central Volume...

...Paul Catchick Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the extent to which the financial investigation function of an intergovernmental organisation (IGO) may be considered in policing terms, with a view to categorising it in relation to existing paradigms, while acknowledging the IGO’s unique...

...Barry Rider Purpose This paper aims to address in a comparative context the role of intelligence in law enforcement and in particular the significance of intelligence‐led policing. Design/methodology/approach The discussion is based on the experience of the author over the last 40 years...

...Andreas Papadopoulos; Graham Brooks Purpose This paper aims to examine the “effectiveness” of the Cyprus police in investigating credit card fraud. Design/methodology/approach In total, 19 semi‐structured interviews with key criminal justice personnel were undertaken to assess the current...

...Michael Kempa Purpose This paper has two integrated purposes: it provides a report on a symposium hosted by the Bank of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in December 2008 dealing with key challenges and directions forward for addressing white‐collar crime; and it ties this material...

... in Norway. Few, if any have studied the working of these agencies in Norway. They are important since the day‐to‐day regulation of white‐collar crime (WCC) is mainly done by these agencies, not the police or the courts. To get a better understanding of the regulation of WCC more research should be done...

... terrorist intelligence, the Security Service and Special Branch, and the relationship between them: this is roughly that the Special Branches in each of the 52 police forces support the Security Service in gathering and analysing intelligence about terrorism. Concludes, however, that it is not clear which...