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Petter Gottschalk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Private policing of Financial Crime: Fraud examiners in white-collar Crime investigations
    International Journal of Police Science & Management, 2016
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk
    Abstract:

    Fraud examiners in white-collar Crime investigations represent the private policing of Financial Crime. Examiners in Crime investigations reconstruct the past to create an account of who did what to make it happen or let it happen. This article addresses the following research question: What is the contribution of fraud examiners in private investigative policing of white-collar Crime? Contributions are considered to be the benefits resulting from an investigation. To make private policing a profitable investment, benefits should exceed costs. Based on an analysis of five U.S. and eight Norwegian cases, private policing does not seem profitable.

  • private policing of Financial Crime fraud examiners in white collar Crime investigations
    International Journal of Police Science and Management, 2016
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk
    Abstract:

    Fraud examiners in white-collar Crime investigations represent the private policing of Financial Crime. Examiners in Crime investigations reconstruct the past to create an account of who did what t...

  • Computer Information Systems in Financial Crime Investigations
    Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2015
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-sæther
    Abstract:

    Information technology to support knowledge work of police officers is improving. For example, new information systems applying data mining techniques that support police investigations are evolving. Police investigation is an information-rich and knowledge-intensive practice. The purpose of this article is to explore information and communication technology in the context of computer information systems to support Financial Crime investigations. White-collar Crime is not as visible as conventional Crime and detection is difficult. For instance, in a homicide case, there is generally a body and forensic evidence. In the case of Financial Crime, accounting and computer forensics are currently the investigators best tools in detection and implemented in most white-collar investigations in recent years.

  • corporate Crime does pay the relationship between Financial Crime and imprisonment in white collar Crime
    International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2013
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk, Lars Glaso
    Abstract:

    White-collar Crime is Financial Crime committed by white-collar criminals. Sensational whitecollar Crime cases regularly appear in the international business press and studies in journals of ethics and Crime. Many of these scholars apply anecdotal evidence to suggest what might be included and what might be excluded from the concepts of white-collar Crime and white-collar criminals. On contrast, with a larger sample, we can study white-collar Crime convictions using statistical techniques to identify relationships between variables. For example, it has been suggested that the amount involved in the Crime (fraud, corruption, etc.) is an important factor when the judge decides the length of the prison sentence. In our sample of 255 criminal cases we identified 88 corporate criminals and 167 occupational criminals. Age when convicted was 47 years for occupational criminals and 49 years for corporate criminals. Furthermore, occupational criminals served 2.2 years in prison, while corporate criminals served only 2.1 years. This is particularly interesting, when the amount of money that was involved in the Crime is taken into account. While occupational criminals on average abused 26 million Norwegian kroner, corporate criminals on average abused as much as 121 million Norwegian kroner. So, even if the magnitude of the Financial Crime in terms of money was substantially and significantly larger for corporate Crime, occupational Crime was nevertheless judged more severely in terms of imprisonment.

  • Financial Crime in business organizations: an empirical study
    Journal of Financial Crime, 2011
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-sæther
    Abstract:

    Purpose – The purpose of this empirical study of Financial Crime in business organizations is to create insights into management competence, applications of information technology and use of information sources to combat Financial Crime.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical research was carried out by a web‐based questionnaire combined with a letter to the largest business organizations in Norway.Findings – Executives demonstrate competence in Crime prevention by introducing control mechanisms and reporting routines. However, when suspicion of Crime occurs, executives are not competent in carrying out interviews, investigate documents and find electronic evidence.Practical implications – Executives need to focus less on routines and regulations and more on information sources and knowledge management.Originality/value – Both descriptive statistics as well as correlation analysis in this paper provide new insights into the extent of Financial Crime, as well as competence, information sources and sys...

Tomomi Kawasaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Big Investment Fraud and “Yakuza Money” Crime — Two Perspectives of Financial Crime in Japan
    Asian Journal of Criminology, 2010
    Co-Authors: Tomomi Kawasaki
    Abstract:

    Financial Crime in Japan takes a major toll on both individual victims and the nation’s economy. This paper focuses on large investment frauds that have occurred from post-war Japan to the present as well as Financial Crimes that involve racketeers of boryokudans , or organized Crime groups, more commonly known as yakuza . Major Financial offending by organized Crime groups include: yamikin (loan sharks), sokaiya (shareholders who extort corporate funds), jiageya (“land sharks” who frighten tenants into vacating properties), and new forms of yakuza money Crime that constitute significant challenges to enforcement. The paper concludes that more comprehensive legislation that applies to all forms of investment fraud is needed in order to stem the tide of white-collar Crime in Japanese society.

  • Big Investment Fraud and “Yakuza Money” Crime — Two Perspectives of Financial Crime in Japan : Financial Crime in Japan ()
    Asian Journal of Criminology, 2010
    Co-Authors: Tomomi Kawasaki
    Abstract:

    Financial Crime in Japan takes a major toll on both individual victims and the nation’s economy. This paper focuses on large investment frauds that have occurred from post-war Japan to the present as well as Financial Crimes that involve racketeers of boryokudans, or organized Crime groups, more commonly known as yakuza. Major Financial offending by organized Crime groups include: yamikin (loan sharks), sokaiya (shareholders who extort corporate funds), jiageya (“land sharks” who frighten tenants into vacating properties), and new forms of yakuza money Crime that constitute significant challenges to enforcement. The paper concludes that more comprehensive legislation that applies to all forms of investment fraud is needed in order to stem the tide of white-collar Crime in Japanese society.

Basia Spalek - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Hans Solli-sæther - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Computer Information Systems in Financial Crime Investigations
    Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2015
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-sæther
    Abstract:

    Information technology to support knowledge work of police officers is improving. For example, new information systems applying data mining techniques that support police investigations are evolving. Police investigation is an information-rich and knowledge-intensive practice. The purpose of this article is to explore information and communication technology in the context of computer information systems to support Financial Crime investigations. White-collar Crime is not as visible as conventional Crime and detection is difficult. For instance, in a homicide case, there is generally a body and forensic evidence. In the case of Financial Crime, accounting and computer forensics are currently the investigators best tools in detection and implemented in most white-collar investigations in recent years.

  • Financial Crime in business organizations: an empirical study
    Journal of Financial Crime, 2011
    Co-Authors: Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-sæther
    Abstract:

    Purpose – The purpose of this empirical study of Financial Crime in business organizations is to create insights into management competence, applications of information technology and use of information sources to combat Financial Crime.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical research was carried out by a web‐based questionnaire combined with a letter to the largest business organizations in Norway.Findings – Executives demonstrate competence in Crime prevention by introducing control mechanisms and reporting routines. However, when suspicion of Crime occurs, executives are not competent in carrying out interviews, investigate documents and find electronic evidence.Practical implications – Executives need to focus less on routines and regulations and more on information sources and knowledge management.Originality/value – Both descriptive statistics as well as correlation analysis in this paper provide new insights into the extent of Financial Crime, as well as competence, information sources and sys...

Arjan Reurink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • From elite lawbreaking to Financial Crime: The evolution of the concept of white-collar Crime
    2016
    Co-Authors: Arjan Reurink
    Abstract:

    Despite the ubiquity of illegality in today's Financial markets, systematic scrutiny of the phenomenon of Financial Crime is lacking in the fields of economic sociology and political economy. One field of research in which the illegal behaviors of business elites have long taken center stage is that of white-collar Crime research. This paper makes available to economic sociologists and political economists an overview of the most important conceptual insights that have been produced in the white-collar Crime literature. In doing so, its aim is to provide economic sociologists and political economists with a conceptual foundation for future research on Financial Crime. The paper first traces the evolution of the white-collar Crime concept. Subsequently, it investigates how white-collar Crime scholars have conceptualized the way in which the empirical profile of white-collar Crimes has evolved over the past decades and especially how the locus of such Crimes has shifted away from industrial corporations to the Financial services industry. It is argued that a fruitful avenue for future research on Financial Crime in economic sociology and political economy consists in studying in more detail the interactions between the changing character of white-collar Crime and the broader capitalist dynamics associated with processes of Financialization.

  • "White-Collar Crime": The Concept and Its Potential for the Analysis of Financial Crime
    European Journal of Sociology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Arjan Reurink
    Abstract:

    Despite the ubiquity of illegality in today’s Financial markets and the questions this raises with regard to the social legitimacy of today’s Financial industry, systematic scrutiny of the phenomenon of Financial Crime is lacking in the field of sociology. One field of research in which the illegal dimensions of capitalist dynamics have long taken center stage is the field of white-collar Crime research. This article makes available to economic sociologists an overview of the most important conceptual insights generated in the white-collar Crime literature. In doing so, its aim is to provide economic sociologists with some orientation for future research on Financial Crime. Building on the insights generated in wcc literature, the article concludes by suggesting a number of promising avenues for future sociological research on the phenomenon of illegality in Financial markets.