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.

• Provides comprehensive information for internal auditors, in-house counselors and corporate security professionals
• Contains valuable information on techniques like forensic accounting, polygraph and arrest
• Presents important discussions on rights to privacy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750696593
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/31/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Preventing, detecting and investigating corporate crime
A primer on corporate fraud detection
Lying, cheating and stealing - is is still the same?
A taxonomy of fraud
Checklists of fraud indicators
Fraud in, fraud out
The legal language of fraud
On the job thievery - common schemes of the working man
How to detect embezzlement
Corporate and financial fraud
The evolution of a corporate crime
Celebrated cases of corporate accounting improprieties
Investigating crimes for and against the corporation
Reporting fraud
Internal corporate compliance investigations
Financial crimes law
Sentencing guidelines - individuals
Sentencing guidelines - organisations
Internal controls and safeguards to prevent and detect fraud
Information access and control strategies
Internal 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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