When corporations are faced with accusations of crime, they usually find it necessary to
justify their actions to the public, the media and their shareholders. Corporate self-defense …

This article examines organizational inhibitions in relation to addressing occupational fraud.
The a priori assumption would be if an organization discovers occupational fraud it would …

In recent years two Swedish companies, Telia and Lundin Petroleum, have had to work hard
to legitimate their actions as a result of allegations of criminal activity. In this paper, the …

The literature on the vocabularies of motive and associated concepts of accounts,
neutralizations, and aligning actions has been exceptionally productive in documenting how …

The recent reports of Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley being engaged in widespread
fraudulent sales practices in the retail banking industry make this field a timely and …

Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of
criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and …

The purpose of this study was to compare drift/neutralization and criminal lifestyle
interpretations of the neutralization-delinquency nexus in 1,005 (498 boys, 506 girls) youth …

This study examines the accounts provided by the CEOs of the corporations involved in the
so-called Panama Papers scandal in order to advance the criminological understandings of …

This exploratory study analyzed how three serial killers (ie, Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer)
potentially rationalized and justified their murders by applying techniques of neutralization …

This study aims to investigate: 1) recruitment process, 2) selection process, 3)
implementation of recruitment and selection system, and 4) evaluation toward recruitment …