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Because of the diversity of white-collar and corporate crimes and the range of bodies dealing or not dealing with them, there is no one place in which information about all these dimensions can be found. Below is a limited selection. Bear in mind the limitations on data availability and sampling
Main Official Sources:
- The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the UK authority responsible for investigating and prosecuting serious and complex fraud, bribery, and corruption
- The City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate is recognised as the national policing lead for fraud and is dedicated to preventing and investigating fraud at all levels
- FBI website overview of ‘white-collar crime’ provides an understanding of how the concept is utilised by law enforcement authorities in the US:
- See the search query ‘fraud’ on the Office for National Statistics website for survey data on frauds against individuals in England and Wales
Other Sources:
- For frauds against UK financial institutions, see the websites for Cifas and UK Finance
- The Fraud Advisory Panel is a charity that issues reports on particular types of fraud
- There are also non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in campaigning on issues such as transnational bribery who produce sometimes excellent reports on specific issues with reform agendas. See for example Transparency International and its national branches; Global Witness; Spotlight on Corruption Watch; and the Anti-Corruption Resource Centres like U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, the Basel Institute on Governance and Anticorrp. There is also material on the websites of inter-governmental organisations such as the OECD, World Bank, and UNODC.
- US data sources include: Violation Tracker; TRAC: FBI Site; TRAC: IRS Site and other sources mentioned in John Jay College of Criminal Justice's guide.
- Some Australian datasets and studies can be found at the Australian Institute of Criminology's website
- PWC publish a biennial Economic Crime Survey that has global and national breakdowns of data; other financial advisory firms also publish reports on fraud and cybercrime.