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Financial crime: February 2010

A selection of new key reports, books, journal articles and websites. All items are available on interlibrary loan through the JV Barry Library. Please contact your own library for assistance.

Books/reports

Journal articles

  • Corporate criminal liability
    American criminal law review 46(4) Fall 2009: Whole issue
    Summary: Ten articles explore corporate criminal liability from different angles. Several claim that it is a senseless pursuit, while others argue in favour. The context is primarily the US but other countries are mentioned.
  • Databases as a means of combating organised crime within the EU / Constantin Stefanou
    Journal of financial crime 17(1) 2010: 100-115
    Summary: The benefits and possibilities of harmonising criminal laws, procedures and records are discussed.
  • EU anti-fraud enforcement : overcoming obstacles / Simone White
    Journal of financial crime 17(1) 2010: 81-99
    Summary: This paper suggest improvements to cooperation between EU bodies, legal frameworks and internal operational problems.
  • Fighting fraud with research [interview with Dr Timothy Pearson] / Dick Carozza
    Fraud magazine 24(1) Jan/Feb 2010: 36-43
    Summary: The Institute for Fraud Prevention is supports research to find the root causes of fraud and offers tools for deterrence and prevention.
  • Fighting money laundering in houses and health / Christopher Ernst and Aaron Kahler
    Fraud magazine 24(1) Jan/Feb 2010: 20 + [5] p
    Summary: The US mortgage and health care industries are targets for money launderers, this article reviews the issues, legislation and effects
  • From clean up to FICAC : anti-corruption in Fiji's post coup politics / Peter Larmour
    Crime, law and social change 53(1) Feb 2010: 55-66
    Summary: Considering the cases brought by the new Independent Commission Against Corruption, the author concludes that army and popular opinion in Fiji hold conceptions of corruption that are much broader than the offences set out in the country’s penal code, andwhich the new ICAC is attempting to enforce.
  • Hitting the suite spot : sentencing fraud / Michael Levi
    Journal of financial crime 17(1) 2010: 116-132
    Summary: Fraud cases seldom attract severe sanctions despite their harms and prevalence.
  • Identity thieves and levels of sophistication : findings from a national probability sample of American newspaper articles 1995-2005 / Robert G Morris
    Deviant behavior 31(2) Feb/Mar 2010: 184-207
    Summary: This study complements previous work by exploring the correlates of identity thieves and four levels of offense sophistication via a content analysis of a nationally representative probability sample of newspaper articles (1995-2005).
  • Institutional responses to corruption : the role of anti-corruption agencies
    Crime, law and social change 53(1) Feb 2010: whole issue
    Summary: Seven articles on the development and impact of anti-corruption agencies.
  • Low self-control and fraud : offending, victimisation, and their overlap / Kristy Holtfreter and Michael D Reisig
    Criminal justice and behavior 37(2) Feb 2010: 188-203
    Summary: The findings demonstrate that the overlap between fraud offending and victimization exposure is partially explained by low self-control.
  • Taking back the ID : will credit card laws help reduce ID theft for young consumers? / Robert E Holtfreter
    Fraud magazine 24(1) Jan/Feb 2010: 14-16
    Summary: US laws aim to reduce aggrgessive credit card marketing to students. Education on ID theft prevention is recommended.

Web Sites

  • Project Wickenby website / Australian Taxation Office
    Summary: Provides basic information on the purpose and activities of Project Wickenby, with an online risk evaluation checklist for companies and their advisers.
    http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/00220075.htm