Visionaries or False Prophets

Perri, Frank S.

doi:10.1177/1043986213496008

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“…Some of these Corporate Psychopaths do cross the line into criminal activity and fraud is theoretically considered to be common among Corporate Psychopaths. Perri (2013) for example makes a persuasive argument that psychopathy is a risk factor for fraud. Further, Perri states that several frauds have involved CEOs and CFOs with psychopathic traits (Perri, 2013).…”

Section: Corporate Psychopathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths

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This article reports on qualitative research carried out in England in 2013. Participants were five organizational directors and two senior managers who had worked with six corporate psychopaths, as determined by a management psychopathy measure. The corporate psychopaths reported on displayed consistency in their approach to management. This approach was marked by high levels of abusive control. The corporate psychopaths were seen as being organizational stars and as deserving of awards by those above them, while they simultaneously subjected those below them to extreme behaviour, including bullying, intimidation and coercion. The corporate psychopaths also engaged in extreme forms of mismanagement characterized by poor personnel management, directionless leadership, mismanagement of resources and fraud.

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Section: Corporate Psychopathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perri (2013) for example makes a persuasive argument that psychopathy is a risk factor for fraud. Further, Perri states that several frauds have involved CEOs and CFOs with psychopathic traits (Perri, 2013).…”

Section: Corporate Psychopathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths

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“…Consequently, although fraud and murder are two distinct crimes, the behavioral traits of the offenders may be the driving force behind both crimes (Ablow, 2008). For example, research confirms that there is a relationship between the behavioral traits of narcissism and psychopathy, creating a negative synergy when they combine with criminal thinking patterns increasing the risk of both non-white-collar crime, white-collar crime and eventually violence (Perri, 2013).…”

Section: The Origin Of Red-collar Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Forensic criminal psychologist Dr. Stanton Samenow cautions against the premise that a crime may be out of character for an offender because of no history of prior offenses, has an excellent employment history, and appears to be an upstanding member of the community (Samenow, 2010a) and this premise holds true for white-collar offenders just as it does for non-white-collar offenders (Perri, 2013). Some academicians argue that offender character evidence is irrelevant as they relate to criminal behavior (Heath, 2008), however the issue is whether character and attitudes are revealed when a decision is made to engage in anti-social activity.…”

Section: Offender Criminal Thinking Patterns and Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although psychopathy has become a highly researched personality disorder predicting criminal behavior, "there is little understanding as yet how psychopathy contributes causally and under what circumstances" to criminal behavior in general (Skeem et al, 2011, p. 126). There appears to be anecdotal evidence of a relationship between the personality traits of psychopathy when they combine with criminal thinking patterns creating a negative synergy increasing the risk of white-collar criminal behavior (Perri, 2013). However, its application to white-collar criminality cannot simply be based on anecdotal evidence of an expression of psychopathy (Smith & Lilienfeld, 2012).…”

Section: Psychopathy White-collar Crime and Violencementioning

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Red Collar Crime

Perri¹

2015

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Traditional viewpoints held by academic and non-academic professional groups of the white-collar crime offender profile(s) are that they are non-violent. Yet research has begun to unveil a sub-group of white-collar offenders who are violent, referred to as red-collar criminals, in that their motive is to prevent the detection and or disclosure of their fraud schemes through violence. This article is the first to discuss the origin of the red-collar crime concept developed by this author coupled with debunking white-collar offender profile misperceptions that have persisted for decades by offering current research on the anti-social qualities displayed by this offender group that predates their violence. Secondly, the article applies behavioral risk factors, such as narcissism and psychopathy, which contributes to our understanding of why some white-collar offenders may resort to violence while other white-collar offenders do not. Case analysis also draws upon gender distinctions, workplace violence and homicide methods used to illustrate that red-collar criminals are not an anomaly to ignore simply because they may not reflect the street-level homicides typically observed by society, investigated by law enforcement and studied by academia.

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