Overview
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining public procurement fraud
- Applies organizational behavior frameworks to pubic procurement fraud and occupational crime
- Makes evidence-based recommendations for enhancing fraud detection and prevention mechanisms
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Procurement is a critical government activity, yet very little scholarly attention is devoted to procurement fraud in public policy, public management, or public financial management research. While many publications focus on the stages of the procurement process and appropriate protocols to follow for successful procurements, the opportunities for exploitation of the process have not been as widely studied. Procurement fraud is similarly understudied in the white-collar crime literature, where attention has primarily been placed on corporate crime or political corruption. This book extends criminal justice and white-collar crime scholarship by using these literatures to frame public procurement fraud. Additionally, organizational behavior approaches are applied to public procurement fraud to explain possible motivations for this type of occupational crime. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide insights into the characteristics of individuals who abuse the procurement process for personal gain, and it offers some strategies for detecting and preventing further abuse. Original research is also presented and compares the offender-based and offense-based characteristics of the perpetrators of public procurement fraud with those of street and white-collar criminals. The intention of this book is to elevate the issue of public procurement fraud and to align it with criminal justice and white-collar crime scholarship.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christy D. Smith is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the MPA Program at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Her research and teaching interests include procurement, public financial management, public policy, and public management. She has published in the areas of sustainable procurement and public procurement fraud.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: White-Collar Crime and the Public Sector
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Public Procurement Fraud
Authors: Christy D. Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12567-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12566-9Published: 20 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12567-6Published: 19 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 84
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Finance, Governance and Government