Fraud and Corruption

Peter C. Kratcoski earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the Pennsylvania State University, a M.A. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. in sociology from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was selected for several post-doctoral grants by the National Science Foundation.  He taught at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota and the Pennsylvania State University before assuming the position of assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University in 1969. He retired as professor of criminal justice studies and the chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Kent State in 1997. He is currently professor emeritus and adjunct professor at Kent State. He has published many books, book chapters and journal articles in the areas of juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, international policing and crime prevention. He is a member of the International Police Executive Symposium, the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.Maximillian Edelbacher graduated from Vienna University (Mag. Jur.) and as Hofrat of the Federal Police of Austria.   He served as the chief of the Major Crime Bureau, as an international expert for the Council of Europe, OSCE and UNO. He also chaired the Austrian Antifraud Insurance Bureau and lectured at several universities, including the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Danube University in Krems, the Vienna University, Department of Sociology, and as a visiting professor at Kent State University, United States. Edelbacher was appointed a special investigator of the AVUS Group on White Collar Crime Cases, as Vice-President of the Vienna Liaison Office of the Academic Council on the United Nations and as Director of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES). He is the author of a number of books and articles and has made numerous presentations at professional conferences.

• Section I: Introduction : Fraud and corruption.- Chapter 1- Introduction: Overview of major types of fraud and corruption.- Chapter 2- Fraud and Corruption: An European perspective.- Chapter 3- Convenience  theory on crime in the corporate sector.- Chapter 4- Identifying and preventing gray corruption in Australian politics.- Chapter 5. Fraud and  fraudulent  business  practices related to the earthquake in  East Japan.- Chapter 6- Fraud and Corruption in the Health Care Sector in the United States.- Chapter 7- Corruption and Fraud in Policing.- Chapter 8- Fraud and corruption after major disasters.- Introduction to Section II: Method to Prevent Fraud and Corruption.- Chapter  9- Fraud and corruption in the Insurance Industry: An Austrian perspective.- Chapter 10- Challenges in controlling, combatting and preventing corruption in  developing  countries.- Chapter 11 Fraud examiners in private  investigations of white collar crime.- Chapter 12 – Combating Political Corruption: The case of Armenia in the context of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.- Chapter 13- Systematic corruption: Weapon of the 21st century, organized crime  and the mafia.- Chapter 14- Perspectives  on fraud  and corruption in the Future.