ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses the investigators across public and private sectors need to know the particular and specific aspects of fraud by sector, activity and law. It focuses on specialist types of crime, such as corruption, and specialist techniques for investigating it, including financial investigation, the use of intelligence, the use of the Internet as an investigative tool and the use of digital forensics. The material is practitioner-focused, providing the knowledge on laws and procedures, specialist techniques and methods for good practice. The book compares how practitioners police and non-police approach the investigation of fraud, before pursuing those approaches through a number of institutional, activity and regulatory contexts, local government benefit fraud; procurement fraud; company fraud; charity fraud; solicitor fraud; insurance fraud; telecoms fraud; employee fraud and so on.
