PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Advance-Fee Scam, Indictable Offence, Pelvic Pain
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Often male, white, highly educated, in upper management positions. Blickle, schlegel, fassbender, klein (2006): more hedonistic, narcissistic tendencies, less self-control, more conscientious. Collins and schmidt (1993): lower integrity, irresponsibility, lack of dependability, disregard of rules and social norms. Theft over is an indictable offence (max. penalty of 10 years of imprisonment) Theft under is a hybrid offence. Types of fraud: identity fraud, advance fee fraud, online auction fraud, investment fraud, counterfeit, corruption/bribery, etc. Some theft may also be fraud (e. g. , switching price tags in a store) Xantidis & mccabe (2000): less likely to subscribe to a feminine sex-role orientation, lower social-sexual effectiveness (motivation: desire of intimacy, higher sensation-seeking behaviours (motivation: desire for novelty and variety) From homes with inter-parent violence, parental alcohol abuse, adolescent alcohol/drug use. Recruitment, transportation, or harbouring of persons by means of threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud or deceit for the purpose of exploitation.