Certificate in Criminology, Fraud and Organisational Crime

Course Overview

To effectively end fraud, it’s important to understand the context in which it occurs and the environmental and personal factors that can contribute to its prevalence. Criminology theories offer crucial lessons on the factors that can lead to fraud and related crimes. Additionally, it’s important for fraud examiners to understand what might motivate perpetrators and how they might rationalize their behaviors.

This course will introduce you to the basics of criminology and Organizational crime. Additionally, this course will discuss many factors that can lead to fraud.

This course is designed to provide current and future fraud and organizational crime control practitioners with a theoretical and practical foundation that instills a best-practice approach to fraud and organizational crime

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will be able to;

• Compare various criminological perspectives

• Recognize how organizational structure can contribute to fraudulent behavior

• Identify the unique aspects that distinguish fraud from other types of crime

• Identify the weak psychological, organizational, and societal restraints that make fraud more likely to occur

• Recognize some of the psychological traits that are common to fraudsters

Course Audience

This course is for those currently working, or wishing to work, in fraud and financial crime deterrence, prevention, detection, and investigation roles in the public, corporate, and law enforcement sectors, as well as roles that require a base level knowledge of the fraud and organisational crime control function.