Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 16 Issue 1

The Way We Live Now: The case for mandating fraud reporting by persons involved in real estate closings and settlements

Courtney J. Linn

The paper seeks to focus on the causes of the recent subprime lending crisis in the US residential property market.

Corporate financial crime: social diagnosis and treatment

Laura L. Hansen

The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to assist in finding solutions for the growing moral and social issues of financial crime plaguing corporations today.

New ways of thinking about old crimes: Prosecuting corruption and organized criminal groups engaged in labor‐management racketeering

Gerald A. Toner

The objective of the paper is to describe how criminal prosecutors in the USA have expanded the reach of federal statutes punishing fraud and extortion to combat the influence of…

An analysis of the victims of occupational fraud: a Canadian perspective

Dominic Peltier‐Rivest

This paper aims to describe and explain characteristics of organizations that are victims of occupational fraud.

Advance fee fraud “419” and investor confidence in the economies of sub‐Saharan African (SSA)

Edward Fokuoh Ampratwum

Though many articles have been produced warning people of the inherent dangers of responding to this fraud, very little work has been done on the impact of the advance fee fraud…

Is crime Giffen?

Michael Cain

This paper aims to develop a utility maximising framework for criminal behaviour and to consider a Markowitz‐type utility function, centred at current wealth, for a representative…

Shari'ah's normative framework as to financial crime and abuse

Abd El‐Rehim Mohamed Al‐Kashif

There has been growth in Islamic finance both in Muslim countries and around the world during the last two decades. This has attracted interest of those concerned with combating…

Income tax crime and government responses in the United States 1998‐2007

H. Wayne Cecil, Raymond L. Placid, Carl Pacini

The most recent IRS estimate puts the individual tax gap at $245 billion per year. This study seeks to develop and review performance measures for the seven most important IRS…

Musical Chairs?

Professor Barry Rider