Policing and punishing economic crime

Policing fraud, reform and critique

Button, M., Hock, B. and Shepherd, D. (2024) Replacing the Serious Fraud Office. Institute of Economic Affairs. https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SFO-Paper_V3_Print.pdf

Button, M. (2021). Hiding behind the Veil of Action Fraud: The Police Response to Economic Crime in England and Wales and Evaluating the Case for Regionalization or a National Economic Crime Agency. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15, 1758-1772

Button, M., Blackbourn, D. and Tunley, M. (2015) ‘The Not So Thin Blue Line After All?’ Investigative Resources Dedicated to Fighting Fraud/Economic Crime in the United Kingdom. Policing, 9: 129-142. doi:10.1093/police/pau037

Button, M., Johnston, L. and Frimpong, K. (2008) The Fraud Review and the Policing of Fraud: Laying the Foundations for a Centralised Fraud Police or Counter Fraud Executive? Policing, 2: 241-250.

Private and hybrid policing of economic crime 

Button, M. and Whittaker, J. (2021) Exploring the voluntary response to cyber-fraud: From vigilantism to responsibilisation. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 66.

Button, M. (2020) The “New” Private Security Industry, the Private Policing of Cyberspace and the Regulatory Questions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 36, 39-55.

Button, M. (2011) Fraud Investigation and the ‘Flawed Architecture’ of Counter Fraud Entities in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Law Crime and Justice, 39, pp 249-265

Brooks, G., Button, M. and Frimpong, K. (2009) Policing Fraud in the Private Sector: A survey of FTSE 100 Companies in the UK. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 11, 493-504.

Brooks, G. and Button, M. (2012) The Police and Fraud Investigation and the Case for a Nationalised Solution in the United Kingdom. Police Journal, 84, pp 305-319.

Button, M., Johnston, L., Frimpong, K. and Smith, G. (2007) New Directions in Policing Fraud: the Emergence of the Counter Fraud Specialist in the United Kingdom. International Journal of the Sociology of the Law, 35, pp 192-208.

Button, M., Frimpong, K., Smith, G. and Johnston, L. (2007) Professionalising Counter Fraud Specialists in the UK: Assessing Progress and Recommendations for Reform. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 9, 92-101.

Cross-border policing of economic crime

Button, M., Hock, B., Suh, J.B. and Koh, C., S (2025) Policing cross-border fraud ‘Above and below the surface’: mapping actions and developing a more effective global response. Crime, Law and Social Change 83, 5

Button, M. (2012) Cross-Border Fraud and the Case for an ‘Interfraud’.  Policing: an International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 35: 285-303.

Punishment 

Button, M. Shepherd, D. and Blackbourn, D. (2018) ‘The Iceberg Beneath the Sea’, Fraudsters and their Punishment through Non-Criminal Justice in the ‘Fraud Justice Network’ in England and Wales. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 53: 56-66.  

Button, M., Shepherd, D. and Blackbourn, D. (2016) The Fraud ‘Justice Systems’: A Scoping Study on the Civil, Regulatory and Private Paths to ‘Justice’ for Fraudsters. Portsmouth: Centre for Counter Fraud Studies.

Button, M., Wakefield, A., Brooks, G., Lewis, C. and Shepherd, D. (2015) Confronting the ”Fraud Bottleneck”: Private Sanctions for Fraud and their Implications for Justice. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 1: 159-174.

Lewis, C., Brooks, G., Button, M., Shepherd, D. and Wakefield, A. (2014) Evaluating the Case for Greater use of Private Prosecutions in England and Wales for fraud offences. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 42,3-15 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2013.11.001

Button, M., Lewis, C., Shepherd, D., Brooks, G., and Wakefield, A. (2012) Fraud and punishment: enhancing deterrence through more effective sanctions: main report. Centre for Counter Fraud Studies.