Symbolic survival and harm: serious fraud and consumer capitalism’s perversion of the causa sui project
Based on empirical research carried out with those convicted of serious fraud, the current article explores the motivations behind engagement in acquisitive criminality. Drawing on the work of Ernest Becker, the article seeks to transcend superficial explanations of fraud which draw on notions of gr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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The British journal of criminology
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
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