About Professor Mark Button
I am based at the University of Portsmouth where I'm currently Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime. I began my career working as a researcher for the Rt Hon Bruce George MP and a tutor at the Scaman Centre, University of Leicester.
I was educated at the University of Exeter (BA Politics), University of Warwick (MA Industrial Relations), the London School of Economics (PhD) and University of Portsmouth (PgCert). I am also a Fellow of the Security Institute and founding member and President of the International Society for Economic Criminology. My research began by exploring the regulation of non-state actors in policing, such as private security while working for Bruce George.
This interest in non-state actors led me to explore fraud, which is predominantly dealt with by private actors, which widened my interests to all aspects of economic crime. My main interests now include: private policing, private security regulation, fraud victims, frauds and scams, economic criminals and measuring the costs and impact of economic crime to name some.
Mark lives and works in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdon
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