Private Policing of Economic Crime

<p>This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. The theory of convenience applies to the suspected crime while the maturity model applies to the conducted investigation.</p><p>Private policing of economic crime by fraud examiners in internal investigations is a topic of increasing concern as there is a growing business for law firms and auditing firms to conduct inquiries and reviews when there is suspicion of misconduct wrongdoing and crime by white-collar offenders. The key features of this book are the application of a structural model for convenience theory and the application of a maturity model for fraud examinations. The structural model assesses convenience themes for motive opportunity and willingness in each case study while the maturity model assesses the level of private policing maturity in fraud examinations. For the first time two emerging frameworks to study white-collar offenses and private policing maturity are introduced and applied to a number of cases from Denmark Iceland Moldova the Netherlands Norway Sweden and Switzerland. </p><p>This book will be essential to those studying law business and criminology as well as practicing fraud examiners.</p>