{"id":371,"date":"2015-03-12T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bringingfreudtofraud.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:24:00","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE BOOK\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0posts in this blog make frequent mention of A.B.C.s of Behavioral Forensics<\/em>. Below, we learn more about this\u00a0prize-winning book.
\nBRIEF SYNOPSIS OF
\n\u201cA.B.C.\u2019s of Behavioral Forensics: Applying Psychology to Financial Fraud Prevention and Detection\u201d<\/em> by Sridhar Ramamoorti, Daven Morrison, Joseph Koletar, and Kelly Pope (2013, John Wiley & Sons)<\/p>\n

How widespread is the fraud: Is it the apple, the bushel, or the crop? We often ask ourselves this question when we hear about the staggering amounts of fraud committed in this country. We also wonder why \u201cgood people do bad things.\u201d By \u201cbringing Freud to fraud,\u201d this book emphasizes that fraud is a human act frequently motivated by an individual\u2019s emotions and cognitive state (including associated group behavioral dynamics).
\nA rogue executive (a bad apple) seems quite capable of recruiting accomplices and perpetrate collusive fraud\u2014hence the notion of bad bushels, as well as pervasive, toxic cultures spawning rampant fraud, producing bad crop scenarios.
\nFor years, academic scholars have attempted to study and understand these behaviors. But the focus has been on the \u201chow\u201d rather than the \u201cwhy\u201d of fraud, with greed typically proffered as the primary rationale. The book uses behavioral science concepts such as \u201cviolation of trust,\u201d to describe and explain fraud. Indeed, the psychology of fraud, or more broadly, \u201cbehavioral forensics,\u201d is about learning to get into the fraudster\u2019s mind, to \u201cthink like a crook to catch a crook\u201d! Emotional manipulation, the big and small lies, the conscious and unconscious mind and their urgings, psychological defenses, human, trust-based relationships\u2014all play a role. This non-technical book also looks at the psychology of the victims using real world case studies.<\/p>\n

Join us for more insights into behavioral forensics (behind fraud and similar white collar crimes) from the authors of <\/span><\/em>ABCs of Behavioral Forensics<\/span><\/span><\/a> (Wiley, 2013): Sri Ramamoorti, Ph. D., Daven Morrison, M.D., and Joe Koletar, D.P.A., along with Vic Hartman, J.D. These distinguished experts come from the disciplines of psychology, medicine, accounting, law, and law enforcement to explain and prevent fraud. Because we are inspired to bring to light and address the fraud problems in today\u2019s headlines, we encourage our readers to come back and revisit us regularly at BringingFreudtoFraud.com.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0posts in this blog make frequent mention of A.B.C.s of Behavioral Forensics. Below, we learn more about this\u00a0prize-winning book. BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF \u201cA.B.C.\u2019s of Behavioral Forensics: Applying Psychology to Financial Fraud Prevention and Detection\u201d by Sridhar Ramamoorti, Daven Morrison, Joseph Koletar, and Kelly Pope (2013, John Wiley & Sons) How widespread is the fraud: Is … Continue reading ABOUT THE BOOK\u2026.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bringingfreudtofraud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}