Overcoming moral hurdles: Using techniques of neutralization by white-collar suspects as an interrogation tool

Security Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-330

  Kieffer, Scott M ^a   Sloan Iii, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate ethics; Fraud triangle; Interrogation; Techniques of neutralization; White collar crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349410400     PISSN: 09551662     EISSN: 17434645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sj.8350087     Document Type: Article

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