SECTION TWO
PREY
I had been doing on-camera white-collar interviews for a few years when I realized that something was missing. I knew all about how people commit fraud and how people discover fraud, but I didn’t really understand it from the victim’s perspective.
Most people, academics and civilians alike, devote a lot of energy to understanding the perps, and understandably so. We want to know how perps do it, why they do it, and how we can stop them from doing it again. Obviously, that’s important. But what about those on the receiving end? How do people deal with their victimization? How do they move on with their lives? And how do they become victims in the first place?
We pay little attention to victims. And when we do, we malign them. ...
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