Criminal psychology : focus on financial crime / Ian Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Ian, 1959- author.

Series:

Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial crimes.

Criminal psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2025]

Summary:

"Based on the foundations of criminal psychology, this pioneering book serves as a powerful tool in the fight against financial crimes. The author explores the integration of the lure of money or undue favour with clinical dishonesty, revealing the strong interplay between narcissism and ego-states driving situational or extended financial crime and the complex psychological elements of obfuscation used to deny it. This motivated the design and inclusion of a new ground-breaking financial crime assessment model: the N.E.B.U.L.A. model, supplementing a dedicated specialist chapter on forensic interviewing. The interlinking chapters form a lively engagement with hierarchical and political influences around corruption, underpinned by an enlightening assessment of definitions. Profiling in financial crimes is also examined, along with victim-support, and the psychological impacts of fraud, theft, corruption, and money laundering, and why these impacts are viewed differently. Also, for investigators, to bolster problem-solving skills and evidence analysis, but importantly also, to avoid pitfalls of bias and Groupthink and identify where information ends, and evidence begins. Innovation is a running theme throughout. Overall, the book presents a new direction in psychological science by combining constituents of criminal psychology with a range of metrics of financial crimes. Combining the comprehensive content with finite analysis, the book benefits both the scholar and the practitioner"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Landmarks and Beyond 'Red Flags'

Key Features of This Book

Structure and Methodology

Chapter Summaries

Part One: Scoping Psychology and Financial Crime

Chapter 1. Criminal Psychology: Concepts and Correlations

Chapter 2. Definitions of Financial Crime. A New Scrutiny

Chapter 3. Criminal Psychology: Advanced Elucidations of Financial Crimes

Part Two: Sharpening Forensic Skills

Chapter 4. Forensic Investigation and Evidence Handling: Financial Crimes

Chapter 5. Investigative Interviewing: Fresh Perspectives

Chapter 6. The N.E.B.U.L.A. Financial Crime Assessment Model

Extended Case Studies (Chapter 6)

Closing Summary

Acknowledgments

Author's Biography

Publications

Part One:

Scoping Psychology and Financial Crime

Chapter 1

Criminal Psychology:

Concepts and Correlations

Overview

Abstract

Introduction

Criminal Psychology. An Analytical Summary

The Crime Control Model Versus the Due Process Model

The Ultimate Goal: Crime Control Through Due Process

Salience

Does Detection of a Crime Reveal Characteristics of the Offender?

Interactive Salience

Decisions

Salience: Summary

Metaphysical Analysis and Financial Crime

The Three Strands of Dishonesty

Agency Explanations: Rational Choice Theory

Beyond 'Red Flags.' How Fraud Criminals Eliminate Suspicion

(1) Cultural

Inferences (Case Study 1)

(2) Evidential

(3) Predictability

'Conduct' Crimes versus 'Result' Crimes

Encountering the Malicious Complainer

Histrionics

Gauging the Emotive Response to Financial Crime

Impact on Victims

Specific Psychological Impacts of Corruption

Specific Psychological Impacts of Fraud

Broaching Investigation

Definitions and Concepts

Generic Enforcement Hurdles.

Barriers Created by Financial Crime Itself

Victim-Blaming - The (Unjustifiable) Reasons Why

Criminal Profiling: Its Well-Intended but Uncertain Function

Profilers: Pragmatists or Inhibitors?

Where Science Defeats the Idiosyncratic

Summary

Systems: Problems by Design?

Strategised or Trusted to Luck?

Aberrant Systems

Inferences (Case Study 2)

Inferences (Case Study 3)

Inferences

Research Strategies in Criminal Psychology

Conclusion

Chapter 2

Definitions of Financial Crime. A New Scrutiny

Corruption: The Political, Business, and Criminal Interface

Disentangling the Problem with Definitions

Corruption Definitions: Specificity of Research

Social Value Orientation (SVO) and Public Service Motivation (PSM)

Social Value Orientation (SVO)

Public Service Motivation (PSM)

Public Sector Corruption: A Practical Perspective

Bureaucratic Incentivisation

Inferences (Case Study 4)

Problems of Legal Definitions 'by Definition'

Corruption Diversified

Bribery

Kickbacks

Facilitation Payments

Nepotism, Cronyism, Clientelism

The 'Quid Pro Quo' Bribe

Graft' Corruption

Graft Corruption, the Courts and the Problematic Search for Consistency

The Ukraine Constitutional Court

Politically Exposed Persons ('PEPs')

The Conflict-of-Interest Dilemma

Inferences. (Case Study 6)

Political Lobbying: The 'Hidden' Corruption

Inferences. (Case Study 7)

Predicate Crimes

Is the Term 'White-Collar Crime' an Anachronism?

A Victim of His Own Success?

Fraud

Fraud by False Representation, Section 2. Fraud Act 2006. (United Kingdom).

Inferences. (Case Study 8)

Inferences. (Case Study 9)

Insider Threat - Opportunist or Career Criminal?

Occupational Fraud

Theft

Inferences. (Case Study 10).

Money Laundering

Generic Description

Proceeds

The Predicate Offence of Money Laundering

Confirming Criminal Property

Short Day-to-Day Money Laundering Examples

Proceedings and Charging Decisions of Money Laundering

Money Laundering. Advanced Concepts

Inferences. (Case Study 12)

Inchoate Offences

Conspiracy

Summary Points

Criminal Attempts

Incitement

Chapter 3

Criminal Psychology: Elucidations of Financial Crimes

Introduction: The Influence of Phrenology

Lost in Translation? The Language of Corruption

'Behind the Bribe' (Case Study 13)

'Rationalisation Revisited.' Engineered and False Victimhood

Inferences. (Case Study 14)

Inferences. (Case Study 15)

'Numbers People.' Spatial Skills, Cognitive Processing Speeds

Spatial Skills

Visual-Spatial Intelligence

Linguistic-Verbal Intelligence

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

Interpersonal Intelligence

Obfuscation

Pushing Back on the Inertia

Psychopathy, Mental Disorders, and Financial Crime

Fraud Offending and Mental Disorder. Is There a Connection?

The Corporate Psychopath? Existent or Cacodemon?

Psychopathy: Distinguished from Mental Disorders

Do Any Signs in Childhood Signify the Potential to Become a Psychopath in Adulthood?

Advancement

But What Is the Difference Between a Sociopath and a Psychopath?

Live Aid

El Chapo

Insanity

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and 'Inevitable' Corruption

Inferences. (Case Study 16)

Narcissists and Neutralisation Tactics

Other Enforcement Angles: When the Corrupt Mind Meets Political Influence

Schizoid Traits. Self-Normalising Gratuitous Corrupt Behaviour

Eysenck's 'Causes' and 'Cures' of Criminality

Freud: Ego States

The Neurotic Narcissist

The 'Triangle' Revised

Reconciliation.

Scoping the Psychology

Chapter 4

Forensic Investigation and Evidence Handling: Financial Crimes

Introduction: Investigation: Responses, Progress, Efficiency with Ethics

Auditors: Resolving the 'Role-Identity Dilemma'

The 'Reverse Logic' Method of Investigating Corruption

Planned or Spontaneous?

Bias. A Framework of Explanations

Bias Affecting Criminal Investigations

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation Bias and Miranda Rights Abuses

Hindsight Bias

Inferences (Case Study 17)

Unintentional Stereotype Bias

Implicit Bias

Anchoring Bias

Bias and the Perils of 'Objectives-Based' Investigation

The Toxic Cycle

A Needful Outline of the Corrupt Investigator

Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Pathological Rule-Bender

Law against Bias. A Rarity

Groupthink

Human Memory and Criminal Investigation

Schema and Cognition

Encoding

Visual Encoding

Acoustic Encoding

Semantic Encoding

Memory: Turning into Evidence (or Not)

Evidence

A Brief History of Trial and Error

Evidence Defined

The 'Journey' from Information to Evidence

Evidence Framework

Facts in Issue

(The) Best Evidence Rule

'Prima Facie' Evidence

Admissibility

How Evidence Types and Classifications Can Infuse with Bias

Direct

Oral Testimony

Circumstantial Evidence

Hearsay Evidence

Inference-Based Evidence

Data and Its Stony Pathway to Being Evidence

Expert Evidence

Similar Fact Evidence: Effective in Proving Fraud, but Underused

Psychology in the Courtroom

'To Abolish or Not to Abolish:' Fraud, Juries, and the 'Reasonable Doubt' Dilemma'

Abuse of Process. The Psychology and the Corruption

'Disclosure Dodging'

Tribalistic Prosecutions

Inferences (Case Study 21).

The Eyewitness and the 'Misinformation Effect'

The Questionable Value of the Pre-Sentence Investigation

Victim Impact Statements: Hidden Psychological Perspectives

Witness Care and the Courts - a New Forensic Guidance

The Duration of Witness Care

The Origins of the Witness's Change of Mind

The Views of Other People

The Views or Actions of Another or Other Witnesses

Threats and Bribery

Whistleblowers: A Particular Instance of Vulnerability to a Change of Mind

Indeterminate Reasons

Protecting the Witness against External Pressures or Influences to Change

Have the Right Mindset from the Outset

Protection Starts with an Interview

Explain…

Chapter 5

Investigative Interviewing: Fresh Perspectives

What Investigative Interviewing Is - And What It Is Not!

What Interviewing Is Not

What Interviewing Is

Fact-Finding, or Fact-Checking?

The Facts: Dispelling Risk of 'First Account' Bias

Interviewing Malpractice. Habits to Avoid

'Confession Bludgeoning' and Entrapment

Questions?

'Stay off the Running Track.' Do Not Fill Evidential Gaps Yourself

Forced Choice Questions

Marathon Questions

Hypothetical Questions

Parroting

Risk-Susceptible Questions

Dangerous Questions

Leading Questions

The Cognitive Interview

Definition and Construct

Perceiving an Interviewee's Memory Processes

Semantic Memory

Procedural Memory

Relevance and Its Application to an Interview

Effective Planning of Interviews

The PEACE Framework

Understanding the 'Dimensions of Resistance'

Direct Lies

The Interview Plan - In Practice

The Interview

Use of Questions

Productive Questions

Assertion. Effect versus Intent

Team Interviews

The 'TOPS' Method of Recording Responses.

Raising and Probing the First Topic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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