Psychological features of corruption criminals

A Psychological Analysis of Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption will likely appear on everyone’s list of factors obstructing Nigeria’s path toward sustainable development; yet, rather than decrease, corruption has proliferated to all segments of Nigeria, making it the "common cold" of Nigeria’s social ills. Typical responses to corruption have involved the overthrow of whole regimes or removal of individual officials implicated in the incidences ...

Psychological Features of the Formation of Corporeality in Young Women

The aim of the study is to reveal the essence and structure of the programme for the development of female corporeality, identify psychological features of work in the context of individual consultations, describe the content of group classes, and analyse empirical data obtained as a result of the programme implementation. Methods: Young women under the age of 40, without clinical psychiatric ...

Public beliefs and corruption in a repeated psychological game

This paper investigates the role of guilt aversion for corruption in public administration. Corruption is modeled as the outcome of a game played between a bureaucrat, a lobby, and the public. There is a moral cost of corruption for the bureaucrat, who is averse to letting the public down. We study how the behavior of the lobby and the bureaucrat depend on perceived public beliefs, when these a...

Police corruption and psychological testing: a strategy for preemployment screening.

The prediction, control, and prevention of police corruption represent pervasive and enduring problems. Researchers have suggested that intervention at the preemployment screening stage may be the best solution. However, investigators have acknowledged that existing assessment practices are flawed. This article proposes a strategy for the preemployment screening of law enforcement personnel. In...

Sentences for Sex Criminals