Posted: December 29th, 2015

DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF WHITE COLLAR CRIMES IN an Oil and Gas Company (XYZ Nigeria Limited) in Nigeria

TITLE: DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF WHITE COLLAR CRIMES IN an Oil and Gas Company (XYZ Nigeria Limited) in Nigeria

Dissertation Proposal

1) Subject Area: Criminology
2) Working Title: Detection and prevention of white collar crimes in the oil and gas industry, with a special focus on XYZ Nigeria Limited
3) Brief Synopsis:

Corporate scandals such as Enron’s white collar crimes have dire consequences and their prevalence erodes creditors, shareholders and the public’s confidence in the financial system and business enterprises. These crimes are usually perpetrated by insiders (employees and management), hence the need to study them to help prevent recurrence.

4) Aims of the Research:

The main aim of this study is to deliver empirical evidence on the plausibility of utilizing fraud hypothesis approach in order to detect fraud. The principal methodology to be utilized in this study is the use of actual operating information from big oil and gas companies in Nigeria where white-collar crime has not yet been discovered on a grand scale.

The research objectives are:
1.​To identify the activities and organizational cultures that lead to the existence of white-collar crime in the oil and gas industry.
2.​Describing the preventive measures that stakeholders in the oil and gas industry should take in order to prevent white-collar crimes.
3.​Identify the measures that will aid early detection of white-collar crime.