Psychology of Fraud and Corruption (Criminology Intro in CIAPS, Cambridge, UK)
November 23, 2025
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as posted by the channelThree types of financial crime: money laundering, fraud, and corruption.
FRAUD
White collar criminals are different to street criminals, more narcissistic.
Immunity and impunity
Impulsivity
Alloplastic defenses
Entitlement and envy
Ego-syntony: competitive and driven pride
Fantasy and pseudo-psychosis (paracosm)
Dysempathy
Symbol manipulation: unreality, movie, reframing, confabulation, magical thinking
Recklessness (no consequences, no future)
Defiance and contumaciousness (reactance, above the law)
Psychopathic (antisocial or dissocial) goal-orientation
Lies, gaslighting (con-man)
Parallel double lives, dissociation
Grandiosity
No remorse, instrumentalizing
Attention-seeking
Risk and thrill seeking and arousal
CORRUPTION
Kleptomania: compulsive venality
Excitement, thrills
Anxiolytic, letting off steam, self-soothing
Money as love substitute
Self-enhancement (confidence, regulation of sense of self-worth)
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