Economic criminals: scammers
Soares, A. B., Lazarus, S., & Button, M. (2025). Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud. Deviant Behavior, 1–24.
Lazarus, S., Button, M., Garba, K. H., Soares, A. B., & Hughes, M. (2025). Strategic Business Movements? The Migration of Online Romance Fraudsters from Nigeria to Ghana. Journal of Economic Criminology, 100128.
Han, B., & Button, M. (2025). An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives. Deviant Behavior, 1–19.
Lazarus, S., Hughes, M., Button, M., & Garba, K. H. (2025). Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders. Deviant Behavior, 1–22.
Button, M., Gilmour, P., Hock, B., Jain, T., Jesperson, S., Lazarus, S., Pandey, D. and Sabia, J. (2024) Scoping Study on Fraud Centres: Ghana, India and Nigeria. ITAD.
Garba, K. H., Lazarus, S., and Button, M. (2024). An assessment of convicted cryptocurrency fraudsters. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 1-17
Lazarus, S., Button, M. and Adogame, A. (2022). Advantageous Comparison: Using Twitter Responses to Understand Similarities between Nigerian Cybercriminals (“Yahoo Boys”) and Politicians (“Yahoo men”). Heliyon.
Lazarus, S., and Button, M. (2022). Tweets and reactions: revealing the geographies of cybercrime perpetrators and the North-South divide. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25(8), 504-511.
Economic criminals: white collar
Hock, B., Park, H., Oh, J., & Button, M. (2025). The profile and detection of bribery in South Korea. Crime, Law and Social Change, 83(1), 1-16.
Zakari, M. B., and Button, M. (2022). Confronting the Monolith: Insider Accounts of the Nature and Techniques of Corruption in Nigeria. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 3(2), 100-08 2631309X211004567.
Shepherd, D., Beatty, E., Button, M. and Blackbourn, D. (2020) The Media, Personal Digital Criminal Legacies and the Experience of Offenders Convicted of Occupational Fraud and Corruption. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 6(1), 3-16.
Button, M., Gough, D., Shepherd, D. and Blackbourn, D. (2020) White Collar Criminals’ Experience of Imprisonment in England and Wales: Revisiting the ‘Special Sensitivity’ Debate. Deviant Behavior, 41, 1585-1600.
Nee, C., Button, M., Shepherd, D., Blackbourn, D., Leal, S. (2019) Psychology of the Corrupt: Some Preliminary Findings. Journal of Financial Crime, 26, 488-495.
Andresen, M. and Button, M. (2019) The Profile and Detection of Bribery in Norway and England and Wales: A Comparative Study. European Journal of Criminology, 16, 18-40.
Button, M., Shepherd, D. and Blackbourn, D. (2018) Co-offending and Bribery: The Recruitment of Participants to Corrupt Schemes and the Implications for Prevention. Security Journal, 31, 882-900.
Button, M., Shepherd, D. and Blackbourn, D. (2018) The Higher You Fly, the Further you Fall”, White Collar Criminals, “Special Sensitivity” and the Impact of Conviction in the United Kingdom, Victims and Offenders, 13: 628-650.
Button, M. and Tunley, M. (2014) Criminal Activity in the Financial Sector. In, Gill, M. (ed) The Handbook of Security. 2nd Edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave.