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Psychology of Fraud and Corruption (Criminology Intro in CIAPS, Cambridge, UK)

Professor explained financial crime as a white-collar subtype, focusing on fraud and corruption and arguing that many offenders show significant psychopathology rather than ordinary greed. Key psychological features include magical thinking, impulsivity, entitlement, narcissism, psychopathy, impaired reality testing, dissociation, lack of empathy, grandiosity, and compulsive behaviors (e.g., kleptomania) that make fraud a pervasive lifestyle and corruption sometimes a compulsive hoarding of wealth. The lecture contrasted white-collar with street crime, noted investigative difficulties due to secrecy and symbolic nature of harm, and observed that attention-seeking and grandiosity often precipitate downfall. Psychology of Fraud and Corruption (Criminology Intro in CIAPS, Cambridge, UK)

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