Peter Sproat

Biography

Dr Peter A. Sproat is a senior lecturer in financial crime within Newcastle Business School at the University of Northumbria and programme leader for its MSc in Forensic Accounting. Presently his main teaching covers fraud, financial regulation and risk management. Prior to obtaining this position he taught modules on: transnational crime, comparative criminal justice and policing at the University of the West of Scotland; money laundering, terrorism and terrorist finance and research methods at the University of Teesside; as well as various politics modules at the universities of Reading, Sunderland, Newcastle and Durham. In addition to possessing politics based bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees, Dr Sproat is a qualified teacher and possesses a postgraduate qualification in law. His conference papers and publications broadly reflect his career. His earliest conference papers and peer-reviewed articles were on topics such as terrorism, genocide, nationalism and the right to self-determination in international law but more recently they have focused upon the use and social impact of counter-terrorist finance legislation, the costs and benefits and effectiveness of money laundering and asset recovery legislation and the policing of organised crime. Dr Peter A. Sproat is a senior lecturer in financial crime within Newcastle Business School at the University of Northumbria and programme leader for its MSc in Forensic Accounting. Presently his main teaching covers fraud, financial regulation and risk management. Prior to obtaining this position he taught modules on: transnational crime, comparative criminal justice and policing at the University of the West of Scotland; money laundering, terrorism and terrorist finance and research methods at the University of Teesside; as well as various politics modules at the universities of Reading, Sunderland, Newcastle and Durham. In addition to possessing politics based bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees, Dr Sproat is a qualified teacher and possesses a postgraduate qualification in law. His conference papers and publications broadly reflect his career. His earliest conference papers and peer-reviewed articles were on topics such as terrorism, genocide, nationalism and the right to self-determination in international law but more recently they have focused upon the use and social impact of counter-terrorist finance legislation, the costs and benefits and effectiveness of money laundering and asset recovery legislation and the policing of organised crime.

Research Interest

Financial crime, especially anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance, policing of organised crime, transnational crime and criminal justice.