Common Denominators in White Collar Crime: I'm Special, You're Special, Let's Fleece them in Style

19 Pages Posted: 24 Dec 2008

Date Written: December 22, 2008

Abstract

Culture, cults and character are shown to be the Three C's of graft and corruption. The notion of conversation is briefly allowed to link the perpetrator to his alter ego, victim or partner-in-crime, wherein are forged the origins of means, motive and opportunity - as also the ballast of the paper. The argument is made that a trained eye should expect the close interplay of culture and pathology, especially in matters of white collar crime, which is used throughout as the focus. By way of summary, these crimes are perpetrated by those with bipolar traits operating in a context of cultural permissiveness, and with selected tools (attitudes, e.g.) of cultural provenance.

Keywords: white collar crime, culture, cults, bipolar, exposure, traits, honor-based, dignity-based, office, stewardship

JEL Classification: A12, A13, B40, K14, K42, P50

Suggested Citation

Herrman, Charles S., Common Denominators in White Collar Crime: I'm Special, You're Special, Let's Fleece them in Style (December 22, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1319623 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1319623

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