Book by Moore, Mark H., Sparrow, Malcolm K.

Ethics in Government: The Moral Challenge of Public Leadership

Politics & Social Sciences

Moore, Mark H.

Sparrow, Malcolm K.

Philosophy

Pearson College Div

Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance

Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many other enforcement or compliance oriented professions, Sparrow believes the traditional enforcement approach is under stress. There are too many violators, too many laws to be enforced, and not enough resources to get the job done.
In this book, Sparrow draws out remarkable parallels in the ways these professions are adapting to meet their current challenges, as they reject their traditional reliance on retrospective, case-by-case, after-the-fact enforcement. Rather than perpetuating their dependence on processes, procedures, and coverage, these professions are each developing new capacities for analyzing important patterns of noncompliance, prioritizing risks, and designing intelligent interventions using a much broader range of tools. Sparrow extracts the essence of the transformations underway, explores the critical implications for information management, and lays out the issues that need resolution before the emerging compliance strategies can reach maturity. This book is required reading for all those concerned with either the theory or the practice of the compliance side of government.

Business & Money

Economics

Praeger

License To Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System, Updated Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Routledge

This book brings an unusual opportunity to explore the peculiarities of America's health care industry's approach to fraud control, when compared with the financial services sector, credit card companies, or the Internal Revenue Service―all of which have to defend themselves against fraud.

Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing

Case studies highlight new approaches to urban police work that can offer hope for better crime control and an improved quality of life

History

Americas

Basic Books

Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport News, Virginia, and London, this important book assesses what can be done by enterprising police chiefs and progressive communities to combat the crime and violence that currently engulf our cities.

How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? A Harvard professor and former Detective Chief Inspector of the British Police, Malcolm Sparrow argues that control or mitigation of these and other "bad" things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. In this provocative new book, he demonstrates that an explicit focus on the bads, rather than on the countervailing goods (safety, prosperity, environmental stewardship, etc.) can provide rich opportunities for surgically efficient and effective interventions - an approach which he terms "the sabotage of harms." Drawing from Sparrow's rich background and unique experiences in law enforcement, this book makes a powerful case for this new approach to tackling the complex problems facing society.

The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control

Management & Leadership

Cambridge University Press

License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System

Criminal fraud must be factored into the current debates about health care reform, budget deficits, and proposed Medicare/Medicaid cutbacks. As a polity, how can we make good public policy if we don't know how much of the nation's one trillion dollar health care budget is being lost to fraud? The amounts are staggering, measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, but nobody knows for sure exactly how much is being lost.Malcolm Sparrow, an expert on fraud control, reviews how the health care industry approaches the problem and concludes that fraud is rampant, largely uncontrolled, and mostly invisible to policymakers. The problem will only get worse, he says, unless the industry at all levels changes its priorities, its strategies for uncovering and preventing fraud, and its technological approach.Many believe that electronic claims processing will save billions of dollars and that managed care will eliminate the major categories of fraud. By contrast, Sparrow shows how electronic claims processing could lead to unprecedented fraud losses, and how managed care makes fraud much more dangerous to human health.The final section—prescriptions for progress—is a must for policymakers at every level, and for anyone with an interest in the science of fraud control more broadly, in any context.

Westview Press

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Ethics in Government: The Moral Challenge of Public Leadership

Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance

Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance

License To Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System, Updated Edition

License To Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System, Updated Edition

Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing

Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing

The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control

License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System

License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System