MARITIME FRAUD: AN OVERVIEW by Peter Kapoor and Richard Gray. Department of Shipping and Transport, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth (1985, iii and 45 pp., plus 4 pp. Bibliography and 7 pp. Appendices). Paperback £10. The ninth of a series of working papers produced by Plymouth Polytechnic’s Department of Shipping and Transport examines, briefly, the historical background to maritime fraud then considers the causes, rooted in the rapidly changing technological and economic conditions which have contributed to the recent marked increase of a growth industry of the last 30 years. Although clearly concerned with a legal issue, the working paper concentrates rather on detailed classification of the factual circumstances in which maritime fraud is practised, stressing that changes in practice are necessary to fight the problem. Several diagrams are included, as well as a cartoon!