James F. Dube, JD  falSe ClaimS to mediCare and mediCaid are nothing new. Billions of dollars are being lost in Medicare and Medicaid programs to waste, fraud and abuse. Fraud has been characterized by the FBI as intentional deception or misrepresentation of facts to gain an illegitimate benefit. Abuse has been defined as unnecessary costs associated with actions and services that are inconsis...

We model the hierarchal evolution of an organized criminal network via antagonistic recruitment and pursuit processes. Within the recruitment phase, a criminal kingpin enlists new members into the network, who in turn seek out other affiliates. New recruits are linked to established criminals according to a probability distribution that depends on the current network structure. At the same time...

This research was sponsored by grant award number 2000-IJ-CX-0006 from the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view or opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not represent the official position of the National Institute of Justice or the U.S. Department of Justice. This document is not intended to create, does not create, and may not b...

Without doubt globalization is impacting on just about every aspect of life in the modern world. One may argue about the positive and negative issues involved in the process but what cannot be overlooked is that it is creating new opportunities to expand criminal activity, particularly in the form of organized crime and terrorism. As such, this phenomenon needs to be carefully studied both for ...