Preventing cheats and fiddles
Methods for regulation and control. English summary of Brå report 2005:7
This handbook focuses on the idea that both legislation and supervision can be conducted in a more systematic and effective way than today in order to reduce cheats and fiddles
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- © Brottsförebyggande rådet 2005
- urn:nbn:se:bra-204
About the study
There are three main reasons why this is an important book. First, it highlights some to this point fairly unknown crime preventors, namely the officials in the Government Offices and the committee specialists. Those people who work with information and control issues in the government agencies and the local authorities also merit to be regarded as important crime prevention actors. Sweden has a long tradition of crime prevention, but so far this has mostly concerned police, school, social services and as of late, shops and restaurants, real estate management and city-planning. By identifying more groups that can take on a distinctive preventive responsible, we can reduce crime.
Second, economic crime in a wide perspective is a neglected area of research and the preventive work has mainly focused on traditional crime. The focus of crime prevention is now being extended to cheats and fiddles in the regulatory regimes that, in one way or another, handle money or impose demands on businesses to operate in a certain manner.
Third, this book illustrates the importance of a comprehensive view on crime prevention. It is essential that crime preventive issues is present at every level, from government and parliament to the individual official. If we can help one another at all levels, we can reduce crime.