Corporate Crime Investigations [Hardcover]

Jack Bologna (Author), Paul Shaw (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750696591 | ISBN-13: 978-0750696593 | Publication Date: October 31, 1996 | Edition: 1

Corporate Crime Investigations is a reference tool for internal auditors, in-house counsel and corporate security professionals who handle crimes, torts, and breaches of contract.

The crimes involved may include employee fraud, theft, embezzlement,
forgery, commercial bribery and property destruction. Breaches of ethical codes, fiduciary duties, and company policies incidental to these acts are also included. Corporate Crime Investigations also includes important information on privacy rights of the suspected individuals.

Provides comprehensive information for internal auditors, in-house counselors and corporate security professionals.
Contains valuable information on techniques like forensic accounting, polygraph and arrest.
Presents important discussions on rights to privacy.

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. . .a very interesting chapter on lying, cheating and stealing, while making the point that - in computer crime - it's still the same.
-Security

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The crimes covered include employee fraud, theft, embezzlement, forgery, commercial bribery, and property destruction. Breaches of ethical codes, fiduciary duties, and company policies incidental to these acts are also included. Corporate Crime Investigations also includes important information on privacy rights of the suspected individuals.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (October 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750696591
• ISBN-13: 978-0750696593
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,447,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars guide for focusing on the trivial while ignoring the serious - the laxity that led to Enrons, May 25, 2005

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Donovan G. Rinker "donoglen" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corporate Crime Investigations (Hardcover)

Pointless, pedantic power-point-speak, Bologna and Shaw offer a mindset that focuses on the dimwit scams that would leave a corporation pennywise and pound foolish. The text reflects conventional wisdom of the 90s: beware counter-culture stapler thieves, but with enough accountants around you, all is well. Such wisdom cost investors billions from dot-com bubbles and speculative scams.

Their reasoning fails on other grounds as well. Bologna and Shaw discount the practice of law, rife with lawyers and politicians who "hairsplit" and texts, like the UCC, which they see as outdated. Of course, their recitation of 1968 Black's Law definitions of crimes suggests that Bologna and Shaw are themselves somewhat out of date outside their field, and a bit dismissive to boot.

Which leads to their field: accounting. The meat of the book reads like a series of 2-hour power point presentations: "Watch out for..." with a handful of notes and negligible application. The point condenses thus: "To stop fraud, hire accountants."

To reach that point, one could sift through unhelpfully prejudicial generalizations like "Theft on the job is largely a counterculture phenomenon." Huh? So look for the long-haired employees when staplers go missing? And in what sense was Enron culture "counter culture"?

Finally, the disingenuous flattery and cloying, typified by statements like "It is truly amazing how ingenious relatively uneducated on-the-job thieves are in circumventing control mechanisms designed by people of much higher intellect..."

Bologna and Shaw seek to flatter executives, possibly to advance their consulting prospects, rather than to provide useful advice. Perhaps a corporate crime investigator is too dense to think through the obvious.

Dollars spent chasing dimes - the hallmark of lousy advice.