Frauds and Financial Crimes

Alan Doig is currently Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He developed the first MA in Fraud Management for UK police, public and private sector investigators and investigation managers. He is author and editor of practitioner and academic reports, articles and books on fraud, financial crime and public ethics; the books include Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics, Fraud, and Fraud: The Counter-fraud Practitioners Handbook. He was the Council of Europe’s full-time Resident Advisor in Turkey for a public ethics and prevention of corruption project and a resident UNODC UNCAC mentor to Thailand. Since then he has worked for various organisations, including the World Bank, OECD, Council of Europe, and the UNDP. Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University. He has an international reputation in academic and policy-oriented research on money laundering, corruption, cybercrimes, transnational organised crime and white-collar crimes. He has been advisor to the European Commission and Parliament, Europol, Council of Europe, UN and World Economic Forum, and UK government departments. His books include The Phantom Capitalists and Regulating Fraud. He has received major research prizes from the British and American Societies of Criminology, the first lifetime Tackling Economic Crime Award in the UK in 2019, and the Al Thani Rule of Law Committee/UNODC Corruption Research and Education prize in 2020.

• IntroductionAlan Doig and Michael Levi1. Frauds and Financial Crimes: National Strategic ResponsesAlan Doig and Michael Levi2. A case of arrested development? Delivering the UK National Fraud Strategy within competing policing policy prioritiesAlan Doig and Michael Levi3. Understanding the police response to fraud: the challenges in configuring a response to a low-priority crime on the riseMichael Skidmore, Janice Goldstraw-White and Martin Gill4. When opportunity knocks: mobilizing capabilities on serious organized economic crimeKenneth Murray5. For fraud, look under ‘serious and organized crime’Simon Avery6. Implementing a divergent response? The UK approach to bribery in international and domestic contextsNicholas Lord, Alan Doig, Michael Levi, Karin van Wingerde and Katie Benson7. Tracking the international proceeds of corruption and the challenges of national boundaries and national agencies: the UK exampleJackie Harvey8. Estate agents’ perspectives of anti-money laundering compliance—four key issues in the UK property marketIlaria Zavoli and Colin King9. Forensic accounting services in English local government and the counter-fraud agendaMohd Hadafi Sahdan, Christopher J. Cowton and Julie E. Drake10. Local government ethics in England: how is local ownership working?Alan Doig11. Councillor ethics: a review of the Committee on Standards In Public Life’s ‘Local Government Ethical Standards’ Jonathan Rose and Colin Copus12. Fraud: from national strategies to practice on the ground—a regional case studyAlan Doig