Serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand

• AIC research project
• Start date: March 1999 (complete)

Description

In March 1999, discussions were held between the Australian Institute of Criminology and PricewaterhouseCoopers concerning the possibility of conducting a joint study of serious fraud investigations which have been conducted in Australia and New Zealand. The idea, which develops some pilot research undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology at the Victoria Police Major Fraud Group in 1997, sought to provide a snapshot / stocktake of a sample of fraud investigations undertaken by police throughout Australia and New Zealand and finalised in the years 1998 and 1999. Quantitative and qualitative data are being gathered on over 150 completed prosecutions examining types of illegality involved; demographics of offenders and victims; how cases were discovered and investigated; losses reported and amounts prosecuted and judicial outcomes of the cases.

Publications

• Gender and serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand
  Janice Goldstraw, Russell G Smith and Yuka Sakurai, 2005
• Gambling as a motivation for the commission of financial crime
  Yuka Sakurai and Russell G Smith, 2003
• Identifying and responding to risks of serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand
  Yuka Sakurai and Russell G Smith, 2003
• Serious Fraud in Australia and New Zealand
  Australian Institute of Criminology and PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2003

Related links

• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Related topic: Fraud