Alan Doig is Visiting Professor, Centre for Public Services Management, Liverpool Business School and Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNCAC mentor in Thailand, and Resident Advisor for the Council of Europe Prevention of Corruption project for Turkey. He has been Professor of Public Services Management at Teesside Business School and Liverpool Business School where he ran the Fraud Management Studies Units which taught the only MAs in Fraud Managment and Financial Investigation and Financial Crime in the UK for police, and public and private sector fraud practitioners. He has written and edited books on Fraud; Corruption and Democratisation; Sleaze: Politics, Private Interests and Public Reaction; and Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics. He has served as a Board member of the Standards Board of England, is a Director of the North-east Fraud Forum, was a member of the Group of Specialists on Public Ethics at Local level, Steering Committee on Local and Regional Democracy, Council of Europe, and was the Editor and part-author of the original UNODC Technical Guide for the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Monty Raphael, Alan Doig, Michael Levi, Martin Gill, Janice Goldstraw-White, Stephen Low, Peter Wright, David Middleton, Steve Phillips, Ian Trumper, Jen Williams, Jim Jolly, John Rosenbloom, Paul Guile, John Edwards, Paul Fredericks, Matthew Rowe, Barry Cotter, Les Dobie, Richard Lines, John Armstrong, Mike Betts, Chris Batt, Alan Bacarese, Roger Critchell, Adele Sumner, Edward Wilding, Aaron Stowell, Michelle Green, George Kelly, Fred Hutchinson, Derek Purdy, Di Cave, Gillian Burns, Jamie Gamble, Phillip Mobedji, Eoin O'Shea, Alan May.
'Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the main issues involved in fraud, its definitions, the law, causes, costs, the nature of the offenders involved in committing fraud, theprocedures and institutions involved in its prevention, detection, investigatingand prosecution. The book not only raises the issues relevant to a range of academic disciplines, from criminology to management, but also discusses links between fraud and other issues, such as corruption or identity fraud, and provides a wide range of illustrative case studies.The book provides a significant academic and practitioner overview of the issues and institutions involved.' ? Peter Heims, Investigate (February 2007)