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Professor Martin Gill, Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International, University of Leicester
Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International is a spin-out company from the University of Leicester which specialises in the areas of security management, risk management, crime and crime prevention and has a specialist expertise in financial crime. Professor Gill has published over 100 articles on crime, security and policing and 12 books including the Handbook of Security. Professor Gill is a Fellow of The Security Institute, a member of the Company of Security Professionals, Chair of the ASIS Research Council. He is co-editor of the Security Journal and founding editor of Risk Management: an International Journal. Martin contributes regularly in the media and recent appearances have included BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live and BBC's Watchdog.
Fraud through the eyes of the fraudster
In this presentation Professor Martin Gill will report on his work with fraudsters in prison. He interviewed 25 people convicted of fraud, including those who had altered passports, those who had conducted scams, identity theft and especially those who had stolen large amounts from their employers. The fraudsters discussed their motives, the techniques they used, the risk factors they had to manage to avoid capture, their successes and failures and their experiences on getting caught and going to prison. His study provides some important insights into the criminal mind, and suggests that we may need to think differently if we are to stop them in their tracks.
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