Healthcare Corruption

This book offers a broad international analysis of healthcare corruption, drawing upon criminology, sociology, psychology, law, political and behavioural economics  and nudge theory. It engages with the existing key debates on how to define healthcare corruption and the measurement of it but builds on this and offers new analysis of these issues in the private healthcare sector too. Furthermore, it moves beyond the analysis of funds lost to healthcare and includes the impact and costs of healthcare corruption on victims and family members of victims and the CJS. It also uniquely considers that the healthcare sector victimizes patients and its own employees, with the healthcare sector as part of a carceral state to help highlight how different disciplines can contribute to our understanding in reducing healthcare corruption.

Graham Brooks is Professor of Criminology and Anti-Corruption at the University of West London, Institute of Police Studies, UK. He specialises in corruption in an international context. Graham has been plenary speaker at the Cabinet Counter Fraud Conference 2012, part of a team measuring fraud in overseas aid for the Dept. of Internal Development (2011-2013), keynote speaker at European Health Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN) 2015, in The Hague, and in Athens in 2018, part of Cabinet Office Round-Table discussion on anti-corruption in 2016. Graham has also contributed to Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) workshops on 'Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering in the United Kingdom' (London, 2018) and 'Anti-Money Laundering (AML) responses in online businesses' (London, 2019). He was recently part of team that developed a FAWE (Fraud, Abuse, Waste and Error) skills development course for the private healthcare sector (2021-2022) and is a member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers Expert Panel (2023).