A diverse group of world experts in personality assessment showcase a range of viewpoints on response distortion. Contributors consider what it means to 'fake' a personality assessment, why and how people try to obtain particular scores on personality tests, and what types of te…
Background, use, and value -- History -- Hotline design -- Performance, assessment and best practices -- Theoretical perspectives -- Case studies -- Special topics -- Appendix
Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the beneficial owner- the Puppet Master and beneficiary of it all. Linking the benef…
Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the beneficial owner- the Puppet Master and beneficiary of it all. Linking the benef…
"A compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artistsand the people who fall for their cons over and over again.".
Shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and geographical settings, a…
There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife with economic crime. This book shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, soc…
"A confidence man with a long police record - who had escaped trial because of the influence of his powerful friends - Stavisky saw his final get-rich scheme collapse in 1933. His unexplained death in an Alpine hideout gave new credence to rumors that he had been abetted and pro…
The author reconstructs the hilarious true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it. On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scott…
Fraud and Fallible Judgment is both an exploration of fraud and an examination of the nature of truth in social relations and experience. The essays in this volume are concerned with deception in the social and behavioral sciences, and conditions that elicit deceptive behavior a…
This collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, …
This collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, …