Dean Blackbourn

Abstract: Corruption of all types including occupational corruption causes immense damage to society. Though a number of guides have been published which offer prevention advice, there is very little original criminological research which connects theory to best practice. This paper demonstrates that Clarke’s situational crime prevention framework provides a mechanism for operatively analysing specific situations to design and implement prevention methods. The study analyses a variety of techniques, based upon a survey and interviews with counter-corruption professionals, to offer insights into their utilisation and effectiveness. To achieve meaningful implementation of the techniques, counter-corruption managers need the delegated power and support of the executive leadership.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Freedom of Information requests to all the major police forces in the UK to identify the resources dedicated to specialist police/economic crime and found that although the resources maybe increasing, they are still not commensurate to the scale of the problem of economic crime and more resources are still required.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided on the additional costs of dealing with staff fraud, beyond the initial fraud loss, based on 45 cases of staff fraud from a wide range of sectors drawn predominantly from larger organisations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate the substantial role of non-criminal justice bodies in punishing persons for fraud related behaviours in England and Wales and show that over one million individuals are sanctioned for fraud offences each year.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how previously clean persons are recruited to corrupt schemes and identified common recruitment techniques used by corruptors and proposed pathogen network analysis as a novel method for enhancing bribery prevention.