Criminal Psychology: Focus on Financial Crime

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.