SPREADING THE WORD: WORKSHOPS

Identity Fraud and Illegal Tobacco:
An Absence of Integrity

Tuesday 29 October 2002
Ian Wark Theatre, The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra ACT 2601

The Centre for Tax System Integrity has a particular interest in understanding how to build integrity into the tax system. Some of the most serious challenges to integrity come from activities where the law is inadequate or outdated, where public understanding of the issues is limited, and where the rules of the game can be manipulated not only to the advantage of illegal operators, but to the detriment of the whole system of governance.

This workshop focussed on two areas where the containment of illegal activity poses particular difficulties for law enforcement agencies: illegal tobacco and identity fraud. Main interest groups: enforcement officers, policy makers, and academics interested in law breaking that cuts across traditional boundaries and that has an international dimension.

Speakers:

Professor Gilbert Geis
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine, USA.

Professor Geis has published more than 380 books, book chapters and articles on various aspects of crime and criminal justice. Former president of the American Society of Criminology and recipient of its Edwin H. Sutherland Award for outstanding research, he has also received research awards from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Western Society of Criminology, the American Justice Institute, and the National Organization for Victim Assistance. Professor Geis received his PhD. from the University of Wisconsin and his undergraduate degree from Colgate University. He taught at the University of Oklahoma and at California State University, Los Angeles before joining the Irvine faculty. He has held visiting appointments at the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany; the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University; the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney; the College of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University and John Jay College in New York City. (Professor Geis's CV and a short biographical note are available)

Professor Henry Pontell
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine, USA.

Professor Pontell has written extensively on the topics of deviance and social control, white-collar and corporate crime, punishment and deterrence, crime seriousness, jail overcrowding and litigation, criminal justice system capacity, medical fraud, the role of crime in the savings and loan debacle, and international financial fraud. Currently Vice President-elect of the American Society of Criminology and formerly president of the Western Society of Criminology, he received the 2001 Donald R. Cressey Award from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, for major lifetime contributions to the field of white-collar crime. Professor Pontell has also been awarded numerous grants, including two from the U.S. Department of Justice (on health care fraud, and fraud in the S&L industry). He has given Congressional testimony to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on the savings and loan crisis, and his work on white-collar crime has been highlighted in the national media. Professor Pontell received his Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979. He taught at SUNY before joining UCI in 1979. (Professor Pontell's CV and a short biographical note are available).

Workshop Program

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