NCJ Number
115833
Editor(s)
R Weston
Date Published
1987
Length
176 pages
Annotation
Ten papers analyze various types of commerical crime, with a focus on New Zealand and Australia, and recommend countermeasures for each crime type.
Abstract
Among the commercial-crime types examined are business losses through deception, insolvency frauds, corporate environmental offenses, computer crime, credit card fraud, automated-teller-machine thefts, fraud associated with letters of credit, international trade frauds, and futures fraud. One of the common threads in the chapters is that the sucessful prosecution of commercial fraud is uncommon and unlikely to deter others. A second theme is that employers, buyers, and users make various forms of fraud much easier because of their own inattentiveness and careless security measures. A third theme is that there are limits to legislation's capacity to prevent commercial frauds, so this puts the burden on management controls to prevent and deter such crimes. Another theme is that new technology must be more carefully examined to secure it against fraudulent use. Chapter references, subject index. For individual papers, see NCJ 115834-115844.