Corporate Crime Investigations / Edition 1

by Jack Bologna, Paul Shaw

Overview

Corporate Crime Investigations is a reference tool for internal auditors, in-house counsel and corporate security professionals who handle crimes, torts, and breaches of contract.

The crimes involved may include employee fraud, theft, embezzlement, forgery, commercial bribery and property destruction. Breaches of ethical codes, fiduciary duties, and company policies incidental to these acts are also included. Corporate Crime Investigations also includes important information on privacy rights of the suspected individuals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750696593
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/17/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Preventing, detecting and investigating corporate crimeA primer on corporate fraud detectionLying, cheating and stealing - is is still the same? A taxonomy of fraudChecklists of fraud indicatorsFraud in, fraud outThe legal language of fraudOn the job thievery - common schemes of the working manHow to detect embezzlementCorporate and financial fraudThe evolution of a corporate crimeCelebrated cases of corporate accounting improprietiesInvestigating crimes for and against the corporationReporting fraudInternal corporate compliance investigationsFinancial crimes lawSentencing guidelines - individualsSentencing guidelines - organisationsInternal controls and safeguards to prevent and detect fraudInformation access and control strategiesInternal corporate investigations - an outline and checklist of legal issues

Editorial Reviews

"...a very interesting chapter on lying, cheating and stealing, while making the point that - in computer crime - it's still the same." —Security

From the Publisher

A reference tool for corporate security professionals, in-house counsel, and internal auditors who handle crimes, torts, and breaches of contract, this volume addresses such matters as what proof is necessary to attain conviction for crimes, as well as how to detect and prove employee fraud, theft, and embezzlement. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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