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A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics

A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics

Sridhar Ramamoorti; David E. Morrison; Joseph W. Koletar; Kelly R. Pope

John Wiley Sons Inc
2013
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Get practical insights on the psychology of white-collar criminals—and how to outsmart them Understand how the psychologies of fraudsters and their victims interact as well as what makes auditors/investigators/regulators let down their guard. Learn about the psychology of fraud victims, including boards of directors and senior management, and what makes them want to believe fraudsters, and therefore making them particularly vulnerable to deception. Just as IT experts gave us computer forensics, we now have a uniquely qualified team immersed in psychology, sociology, psychiatry as well as accounting and auditing, introducing the emerging field of behavioral forensics to address the phenomenon of fraud. Ever wonder what makes a white-collar criminal tick? Why does she or he do what they do? For the first time ever, see the mind of the fraudster laid bare, including their sometimes twisted rationalizations; think like a crook to catch a crook! The A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics takes you there, with expert advice from a diverse but highly specialized authoring team of professionals (three out of the four are Certified Fraud Examiners): a former accounting firm partner who has a PhD in psychology, a former FBI special agent who has been with investigative practices of two of the Big Four firms, an industrial psychiatrist who has worked closely with the C-level suite of large and small companies, and an accounting professor who has interviewed numerous convicted felons. Along with a fascinating exploration of what makes people fall for the common and not-so-common swindles, the book provides a sweeping characterization of the ecology of fraud using The A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics paradigm: the bad Apple (rogue executive), the bad Bushel (groups that collude and behave like gangs), and the bad Crop (representing organization-wide or even societally-sanctioned cultures that are toxic and corrosive). The book will make you take a longer look when hiring new employees and offers a deeper more complex understanding of what happens in organizations and in their people. The A.B.C. model will also help those inside and outside organizations inoculate against fraud and make you reflect on instilling the core values of your organization among your people and create a culture of excellence and integrity that acts as a prophylactic against fraud. Ultimately, you will discover that, used wisely, behavioral methods trump solely economic incentives. With business fraud on the rise globally, The A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics is the must-have book for investigators, auditors, the C-suite and risk management professionals, the boards of directors, regulators, and HR professionals. Examines the psychology of fraud in a practical way, relating it to aspects of fraud prevention, deterrence, detection, and remediationHelps you understand that trust violation—the essence of fraud—is a betrayal of behavioral assumptions about "trusted" peopleExplains how good people go bad and how otherwise honest people cross the lineUnderscores the importance of creating a culture of excellence and integrity that inoculates an organization from fraud risk (i.e., honest behavior pays, while dishonesty is frowned upon)Provides key takeaways on what to look for when hiring new employees and in your current employees, as well as creating and maintaining a culture of control consciousnessIncludes narrative accounts of interviews with convicted white-collar criminals, as well as interpretive insights and analysis of their rationalizationsFurnishes ideas about how to enhance professional skepticism, how to resist fraudsters, how to see through their schemes, how to infuse internal controls with the people/behavioral element, and make them more effective in addressing behavioral/integrity risksProvides a solid foundation for training programs across the fraud risk management life cycle all the way from the discovery of fraud to its investigation as well as remediation (so the same fraud doesn't happen again)Enables auditors/investigators to engage in self-reflection and avoid cognitive and emotional biases and traps that lead to professional judgment errors (e.g., overconfidence, confirmation, self-deception, groupthink, halo effect, availability, speed-accuracy trade-off, etc.) Ever since the accounting scandals surrounding Enron and WorldCom surfaced, leading to the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, as well as the continuing fall out from the Wall Street financial crisis precipitating the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, fraud has been a leading concern for executives globally. If you thought you knew everything there was to know about financial fraud, think again. Get the real scoop with The A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics.
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Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950

Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950

Hugh Morrison

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
2024
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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
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The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

Michael C. Dorf; Trevor W. Morrison

Oxford University Press Inc
2010
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The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law presents an accessible introduction to the enduring topics of American constitutional law, including judicial review, methods of interpretation, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection, and individual liberties. One of the most important functions performed by the American Constitution and the more than two centuries' worth of cases interpreting it is the allocation of decision-making. Professor Dorf and Professor Morrison frame many of these constitutional debates with this question of authority. When should courts rule that the Constitution takes some issue outside of the domain of ordinary politics? Should courts referee disputes between the branches of the federal government? Should they referee disputes between the states and the national government? Using what standards? This introduction to American constitutional law critically examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States, which has resolved thousands of constitutional controversies based on the shortest national constitution on the planet. The authors also look beyond the Supreme Court, exploring the arguments for and against judicial review and various versions of popular constitutionalism.
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Roxana's Children

Roxana's Children

Lynn A. Bonfield; Mary C. Morrison

University of Massachusetts Press
1995
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This text tells the story of Roxana Walbridge Watts (1802-1862), a farm wife in Peacham, Vermont and the 12 children she raised. Using a variety of primary sources - letters, diaries and photographs - these personal histories describe a broad range of experiences.
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Unexpectedly Foretold Occurrences: Scientific Evidence that there is a God who Loves You (and why scholars don't discuss it)

Unexpectedly Foretold Occurrences: Scientific Evidence that there is a God who Loves You (and why scholars don't discuss it)

C. S. Morrison

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Does an honest critical analysis of the book of Daniel in the Bible reveal hard (scientific) evidence of the Christian God? This book claims it does, and mounts a surprisingly persuasive defence of this claim, uncovering astonishing features of Daniel that appear to be getting ignored because they support it. Critical scholars currently insist that none of the prophecies in the book of Daniel were intended to predict events beyond the 160s BC (the decade in which they believe the book was completed and made public). However, this theory has great difficulty explaining the content of three of those prophecies, Daniel 2, Daniel 7 and Daniel 9:24-27, crucial features of which are revealingly labelled 'obscure', or attributed to inexplicable ignorance and carelessness on the part of an otherwise well-informed writer. The explosive claim that this book makes is that there's a far simpler and much more plausible explanation for the content of these visions that critical scholars are ignoring: It is the possibility that they were included precisely because the intended readers in the 160s BC would interpret them as predictions of the distant future far beyond their day, making them less likely to believe skeptical claims that the book of Daniel was really a recent forgery (which would be largely based on the extent to which it predicted recent events). As this book shows, there are many grounds to think that those intended readers would and did interpret these passages as predictions of the future. And there is even robust evidence (largely ignored by scholars) that this was indeed the writer's intention. It's true that some of the events these passages predict resemble events in the 160s BC, but such resemblances are only what one would expect if the writer wanted to engage his readers' interest in these passages so that they would discover them to be predictions of the future - a discovery that would clearly discredit the skeptics. Since this hypothesis would perfectly explain why so many intelligent people (past and present) think these passages predicted the future well beyond their proposed time of writing, and isn't in any way inconsistent with evidence or rational principles, one rightly wonders why it never features in critical commentaries. This book blames the polarised nature of academic views on scripture. Conservative (religious) scholars don't want to appear critical of established doctrine, and critical scholars don't want to risk being labelled 'conservative'. But why does this matter? It matters because it obscures a profoundly astonishing fact. As this book makes clear, these real predictions are both specific and time-limited. Yet amazingly, history after the time of writing appears to have perfectly fulfilled their most likely meanings - the most justifiable way their intended readers could interpret them. This is especially strange because the predicted events are not of a sort that could be deliberately brought about by humans. And it is even more mysterious because the events that fulfilled each prediction include pivotal moments in the rise of Christianity. As well as asking the obvious question - Is this scientific evidence of the Christian God? - this book also deals with the issue of whether that God would really allow such evidence to be preserved in a forged document that was essentially propaganda if these arguments are correct. Many Christians will no doubt be firmly against this notion. However, if their God is real he clearly uses other imperfect vessels to carry his word. So why not the book of Daniel? This book points out that the datable nature and historical content of the parts of Daniel that it regards as forgeries make them vital to the function the book would be likely to have if it were the work of that God. They prove beyond reasonable doubt that Daniel 2, 7 and 9 were written as predictions of the distant future long before their astonishing and inexplicable fulfillment took plac
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The Blind Mindmaker: Explaining Consciousness without Magic or Misrepresentation

The Blind Mindmaker: Explaining Consciousness without Magic or Misrepresentation

C. S. Morrison

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered what it is you're seeing? On a clear day your gaze will be met with a glorious expanse of blue. But that blue isn't in the sky. And it isn't even in the light your eyes detected. It is in fact generated somewhere deep inside your brain. Yet amazingly, it still has a shape that closely resembles the image of the sky projected onto the retinas of your eyes - including the exact curvatures of the clouds and horizon line. This book explains how and why this subjective image is formed. It tells you what it is made of, what advantage it gave our ancestors, and how it came to have its perfect retinal-image-like form. And it does the same for all our other experiences too. In short, it offers a relatively complete solution to what Australian philosopher David Chalmers called the Hard Problem. Unlike other attempts at explaining consciousness, though, this one accounts for all the design-like features of our experiences as products of natural selection and the established laws of physics. It invokes none of the magical functionalism that other theories appear to require. It thus explains our amazing subjective images in exactly the way science suggests they ought to be explained. And astonishingly, it even indicates why we understand what they mean. The argument of this book is so compelling that anyone who wants to know the most justifiable view of reality, what part they play in the workings of a brain, or what's likely to happen to them after they die, is strongly encouraged to become familiar with it. "There is something very refreshing about this book. It is free of the tired jargon of philosophy of mind. It sticks to a scientific agenda in a way that a lot of scientists would do well to emulate." Jonathan C. W. Edwards (Journal of Consciousness Studies)
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Daniel Rediscovered: The Truth will Set You Free

Daniel Rediscovered: The Truth will Set You Free

C. S. Morrison

Qualiafish Publications
2020
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The book of Daniel is the only scripture that Christ said predicted the future of his time. Yet most modern scholars claim it doesn't. In their view, Christ simply misunderstood it. This book shows clearly why that claim is misguided - the likely result of peer pressure driven by a desire to avoid appearing too supportive of "conservative" (religious) views. It shows that at the time of Christ certain events that Daniel predicted did indeed still lie in the future, and that this fact was well-known even back in the second century BC when Daniel was first widely circulated. Moreover, Christ himself fulfilled one of Daniel's most specific predictions. Although that fulfilment might just about be put down to deliberate human effort (Christ definitely intended it), that is not the case for a second prediction in the same prophecy. The fulfilment of that prediction just over a century after Christ endorsed it and added to its specificity is one of the most astonishing facts of history.
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Surprised by the Power of Daniel

Surprised by the Power of Daniel

C S Morrison

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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What would it take to convince you that the Gospel of Jesus Christ really was the work of a God? What evidence would remove all your doubts forevermore?In this groundbreaking and highly persuasive book, Scottish philosopher C. S. Morrison recounts the amazing miracles that brought him from a sceptical position on all things religious to unshakable certainty. Beginning with a surprising childhood experience that gave him a na ve confidence in the power of prayer, he explains his teenage rejection of Christianity (and all faiths), and how his studies in science reopened his mind to the possibility of a theistic God. This led to a renewed interest in Christianity, but no great conviction that the teachings of Jesus Christ were the work of a nonhuman mind. An astonishing coincidence changed all that. It was another immediate and meaningful answer to prayer, but a million times more dramatic and unlikely. It gave him a spooky sense that a real God was steering him towards Christianity. His witnessing of a medical miracle in circumstances that appeared to him to rule out fraud, secured that faith for many years. However, in his forties he became far more sceptical about the world. What saved his faith was that by this time he had found objective evidence that the claims of Christ were correct.That evidence is as surprising and convincing as those earlier miracles. It consists of the historical fulfilment of certain prophecies in the book of Daniel in the Bible. Morrison makes a very persuasive case that, due to scholarly biases, the most justifiable interpretation of these prophecies has not been fully identified before. Yet if you agree with him about their meaning, you will be forced to concede that they really did come true long after the latest possible date of writing. And intriguingly, the events that fulfilled them are not of the sort that could have been orchestrated by man. If you are looking for a powerful testimony, robust answers to the hardest questions a Christian might be asked, or even the perfect justification for faith in Christ, this rare combination of personal testimony and investigative scholarship is unlikely to disappoint.
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Surprised by the Power of Daniel

Surprised by the Power of Daniel

C S Morrison

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
pokkari
What would it take to convince you that the Gospel of Jesus Christ really was the work of a God? What evidence would remove all your doubts forevermore?In this groundbreaking and highly persuasive book, Scottish philosopher C. S. Morrison recounts the amazing miracles that brought him from a sceptical position on all things religious to unshakable certainty. Beginning with a surprising childhood experience that gave him a na ve confidence in the power of prayer, he explains his teenage rejection of Christianity (and all faiths), and how his studies in science reopened his mind to the possibility of a theistic God. This led to a renewed interest in Christianity, but no great conviction that the teachings of Jesus Christ were the work of a nonhuman mind. An astonishing coincidence changed all that. It was another immediate and meaningful answer to prayer, but a million times more dramatic and unlikely. It gave him a spooky sense that a real God was steering him towards Christianity. His witnessing of a medical miracle in circumstances that appeared to him to rule out fraud, secured that faith for many years. However, in his forties he became far more sceptical about the world. What saved his faith was that by this time he had found objective evidence that the claims of Christ were correct.This evidence is as surprising and convincing as those earlier miracles. It consists of the historical fulfilment of certain prophecies in the book of Daniel in the Bible. Morrison makes a very persuasive case that, due to scholarly biases, the most justifiable interpretation of these prophecies has not been fully identified before. Yet if you agree with him about their meaning, you will be forced to concede that they really did come true long after the latest possible date of writing. And intriguingly, the events that fulfilled them are not of the sort that could have been orchestrated by man. If you are looking for a powerful testimony, robust answers to the hardest questions a Christian might be asked, or even the perfect justification for faith in Christ, this rare combination of personal testimony and investigative scholarship is unlikely to disappoint.
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Surprised by the Power of Daniel (Special Iona Edition)

Surprised by the Power of Daniel (Special Iona Edition)

C S Morrison

Qualiafish Publications
2018
pokkari
What would it take to convince you that the Gospel of Jesus Christ really was the work of a God? What evidence would remove all your doubts forevermore?In this groundbreaking and highly persuasive book, Scottish philosopher C. S. Morrison recounts the amazing miracles that brought him from a sceptical position on all things religious to unshakable certainty. Beginning with a surprising childhood experience that gave him a na ve confidence in the power of prayer, he explains his teenage rejection of Christianity (and all faiths), and how his studies in science reopened his mind to the possibility of a theistic God. This led to a renewed interest in Christianity, but no great conviction that the teachings of Jesus Christ were the work of a nonhuman mind. An astonishing coincidence changed all that. It was another immediate and meaningful answer to prayer, but a million times more dramatic and unlikely. It gave him a spooky sense that a real God was steering him towards Christianity. His witnessing of a medical miracle in circumstances that appeared to him to rule out fraud, secured that faith for many years. However, in his forties he became far more sceptical about the world. What saved his faith was that by this time he had found objective evidence that the claims of Christ were correct.That evidence is as surprising and convincing as those earlier miracles. It consists of the historical fulfilment of certain prophecies in the book of Daniel in the Bible. Morrison makes a very persuasive case that, due to scholarly biases, the most justifiable interpretation of these prophecies has not been fully identified before. Yet if you agree with him about their meaning, you will be forced to concede that they really did come true long after the latest possible date of writing. And intriguingly, the events that fulfilled them are not of the sort that could have been orchestrated by man. If you are looking for a powerful testimony, robust answers to the hardest questions a Christian might be asked, or even the perfect justification for faith in Christ, this rare combination of personal testimony and investigative scholarship is unlikely to disappoint.
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Moving Through Adolescence

Moving Through Adolescence

Leslie Morrison Gutman; Stephen C. Peck; Oksana Malanchuk; Arnold J. Sameroff; Jacquelynne S. Eccles

John Wiley Sons Inc
2017
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In this monograph, we investigate the developmental trajectories of a predominantly middle-class, community-based sample of European American and African American adolescents growing up in urban, suburban, and rural areas in Maryland, United States. Within risk-protection and positive youth development frameworks, we selected developmental measures based on the normative tasks of adolescence and the most widely studied indicators in the three major contexts of development: families, peer groups, and schools. Using hierarchical linear growth models, we estimated adolescents’ growth trajectories from ages 12 to 20 with variation accounted for by SES, gender, race/ethnicity, and the gender by race/ethnicity interaction. In general, the results indicate that: (a) periods of greatest risk and positive development depended on the time frame and outcome being examined and (b) on average, these adolescents demonstrated much stronger evidence of positive than problematic development, even at their most vulnerable times. Absolute levels of their engagement in healthy behaviors, supportive relationships with parents and friends, and positive self-perceptions and psychological well-being were much higher than their reported angry and depressive feelings, engagement in risky behaviors, and negative relationships with parents and peers. We did not find evidence to support the idea that adolescence is a time of heightened risk. Rather, on average, these adolescents experienced relatively stable and developmentally healthy trajectories for a wide range of characteristics, behaviors, and relationships, with slight increases or decreases at different points in development that varied according to domain. Developmental trajectories differed minimally by SES but in some expected ways by gender and race/ethnicity, although these latter differences were not very marked. Overall, most of the young people navigated through their adolescence and arrived at young adulthood with good mental and physical health, positive relationships with their parents and peers, and high aspirations and expectations for what their future lives might hold.
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C. S. Lewis at the BBC

C. S. Lewis at the BBC

Justin Phillips

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
2003
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A behind-the-scenes look at religious radio broadcasting during World War II in which such revered figures as C.S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers came into the public eye. This fascinating book explores the tensions behind the greatest era in BBC radio broadcasting – the Home Service. Despite evacuation, air-raids and the closure of the fledgling TV service, the BBC rose magnificently to the challenge of informing, entertaining and inspiring a nation at war. The war years were to transform religious broadcasting beyond recognition. Under the persistent and innovative James Welch, the BBC began to invent new formats and take large risks in trying to communicate Christian truth to a generation whose faith was on the rack of war. Out of this came the broadcast talks of CS Lewis and the first ever dramatic portrayal of Christ in Dorothy L Sayers’ Man Born to be King. The response to C S Lewis’ first broadcast was so overwhelming that a second programme had to be arranged to answer listeners’ questions. Lewis’ hugely popular BBC talks were published as Mere Christianity and have been a classic ever since, selling over 11 million copies worldwide. As a layman, Lewis’ critics initially claimed that he was not qualified to talk on Christian matters. For Lewis this was all part of the challenge of reaching a new audience. But his initial enthusiasm for broadcasting waned as it began to interfere with his work at Oxford, and he turned down many of the BBC’s invitations to appear on the radio, including a chance to be on The Brains Trust, the Any Questions of its day. This is a chapter in Lewis’ life which has received very little attention from biographers and commentators, who have focussed on his achievements as a writer and academic. Yet C S Lewis’ work on the radio made him a household name.
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