title: Enhancing fraud prevention and detection by profiling fraud offenders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The paper first focuses on the crime of fraud and then on approaches to profiling offenders before examining closely studies of fraud offenders and their motivation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Drawing on the existing empirical literature, a profile of the serious fraud offender is presented and critiqued together with a taxonomy of such offenders comprising 12 types.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The implications of the findings for fraud detection and prevention are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Social and Political Sciences Department, University of Cyprus, Cyprus. kapardis@ucy.ac.cy
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kapardis
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krambia-Kapardis
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D003418:Criminology / Q000379:methods*; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires