Malcolm Sparrow
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“The Character Of Harms: Operational Challenges In Control” (2008)
How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? A Harvard professor and former Detective Chief Inspector of the British Police, Malcolm Sparrow argues that control or mitigation of these and other "bad" things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. In this provocative new book, he demonstrates that an explicit focus on the bads, rather than on the countervailing goods (safety, prosperity, environmental stewardship, etc.) can provide rich opportunities for surgically efficient and effective interventions - an approach which he terms "the sabotage of harms." Drawing from Sparrow's rich background and unique experiences in law enforcement, this book makes a powerful case for this new approach to tackling the complex problems facing society.
“License To Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System” (2000)
Fraud And Abuse Bleeds More Than 100 Billion Dollars Each Year Out Of The U.s. Health System. This Detailed Examination Shows The Problem Is Worse Than Almost Anyone Knows, Mostly Invisible, And Still Far From Controlled. Sparrow Reveals That Current Control Systems Fail By Presenting Fraud Perpetrators With A Safe, Easy-to-hit Target: Fully Automated Check-printing Systems, Which Only Require Thieves To Bill Correctly Regardless Of Whether Or Not Any Medical Service Is Provided. This Target Attracts An Extraordinary Range Of Criminal Entrepreneurs, From Low-life Hoods Who Sign On As Medicare Or Medicaid Providers Equipped With Nothing More Than Beepers And Mailboxes, To Drug Trafficking Organizations, Organized Crime Syndicates, Even Major Hospital Chains. Sparrow's Research Examines The Much-misunderstood Effects Of Managed Care On The Problem, The Government's Recent Attempts To Grapple With Fraud, And The Campaign By Various Provider Associations To Undermine Those Efforts. The State Of The Art -- Control Failures -- How Goes The War? -- New Frontiers For Control -- False Claims -- Managed Care -- The Nature Of The Fraud-control Challenge -- The Pathology Of Fraud Control -- The Importance Of Measurement -- Assessment Of Existing Fraud-control Systems -- The Antithesis Of Modern Claims Processing -- Prescription For Progress -- A Model Fraud-control Strategy -- Detection Systems. Malcolm K. Sparrow. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
“The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, And Managing Compliance” (2000)
The Regulatory Craft tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time—the reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how the vogue prescriptions for reform (centered on concepts of customer service and process improvement) fail to take account of the distinctive character of regulatory responsibilities—which involve the delivery of obligations rather than just services.In order to construct more balanced prescriptions for reform, Sparrow invites us to reconsider the central purpose of social regulation—the abatement or control of risks to society. He recounts the experiences of pioneering agencies that have confronted the risk-control challenge directly, developing operational capacities for specifying risk-concentrations, problem areas, or patterns of noncompliance, and then designing interventions tailored to each problem.
“Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach To Compliance” (1994)
Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many other enforcement or compliance oriented professions, Sparrow believes the traditional enforcement approach is under stress. There are too many violators, too many laws to be enforced, and not enough resources to get the job done. In this book, Sparrow draws out remarkable parallels in the ways these professions are adapting to meet their current challenges, as they reject their traditional reliance on retrospective, case-by-case, after-the-fact enforcement. Rather than perpetuating their dependence on processes, procedures, and coverage, these professions are each developing new capacities for analyzing important patterns of noncompliance, prioritizing risks, and designing intelligent interventions using a much broader range of tools. Sparrow extracts the essence of the transformations underway, explores the critical implications for information management, and lays out the issues that need resolution before the emerging compliance strategies can reach maturity. This book is required reading for all those concerned with either the theory or the practice of the compliance side of government.
“Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing” (1992)
Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport News, Virginia, and London, this important book assesses what can be done by enterprising police chiefs and progressive communities to combat the crime and violence that currently engulf our cities.
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