What's the difference between a scam and a fraud?

Do you have the same reaction when told someone has been scammed as you would if you'd been told they'd been the victim of fraud?

That's the question we look at in this week's episode as we look at a paper entitled "More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’".

It is authored by Elisabeth Carter, Jack Mark Whittaker, and Tim Day, and published in the journal Crime Media Culture.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17416590251393960

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When faced with a potentially dangerous situation, at what point do the public think it's right to call the police?

Do different demographics asses risk differently and what are the triggers that motivate dialling 999?

The title of the work is "Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities". The authors are David Rowlands, Christine A. Weirich, Ben Bradford and Adam Crawford published in The British Journal of Criminology in 2025.

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaf118/8407384

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Our expectations of how the police behave are rightly high. Forces have those expectations too and use a variety of methods to identify officers who are at risk of behaviour incompatible with their role as upholders of the law.

This week's episode looks at research which questions whether the current frameworks for monitoring officers misses a major cohort of miscreants.

The paper is called "Fire Without Smoke: Understanding Spontaneous Career Ending Police Misconduct." It was authored by Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Morven Brown, and Matthew Bland, and published in the journal Police Quarterly.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10986111251414963

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