The article looks back at a 1993 research report on the investigation of fraud by the police and the public sector. The issues discussed there are reviewed in the light of research undertaken a decade later and within the context of the UK government's 2006 Fraud Review. The Fraud Review...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to research how local councils in England responded to a national initiative intended to address the risk of the involvement of organised crime in local government procurement fraud. In so doing, it considers definitional issues before undertaking original...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess, since the 2006 Fraud Review, recommendations, strategies and consequential organisational and other changes at national, regional and local levels relating to fraud, using the Northeast as a case study. It also notes that implementation may have...

UK politics and the public sector have in recent years been the subject of inquiries and reviews into standards of conduct and the rules and procedures that regulate the conduct of public business in terms of impartiality and probity. The first major inquiry was held in 1976 and the second, the...