NCJ Number
101064
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 9 Issue: 2 Dated: (Winter 1985) Pages: 25-34
Date Published
1985
Length
10 pages
Annotation
The present paper explores the extent of violations by physicians in the course of their involvement in health benefit programs in Australia, Canada, and the United States.
Abstract
Criminologists have paid scant attention to the issue of crime and abuse in the field of the delivery of health care by physicians. However, largely because of the escalating costs of such services in recent years, government officials and academics have begun to examine this form of white-collar crime. Despite differences in the structure of their programs, the three countries appear to demonstrate similar patterns of offenses, though the precise extent of such violations remains largely a matter of speculation. Similar enforcement problems are also found in each of the countries examined. In Canada, unlike Australia and the United States, control of the definition of violations by the medical associations appears to be responsible for a lesser number of prosecutions and a lesser degree of public concern. (Publisher abstract)