Insider Threats

Akkerman and Langman reconstruct the tools of early modern intelligence - ciphers, inks, seals, locks, poisons - and show that the cycle of measure and countermeasure was already fully formed.

An edited academic reference on how white-collar crime is defined, detected and punished across jurisdictions, and why its measurement problems shape how an organization sees its own exposure.

Lincoln filled his cabinet with the men he had beaten. Goodwin's account of managing capable dissenters is the best available case for building a senior team that argues.

David Callahan argues that misconduct spreads where rewards are steep and detection is weak - a structural reading of cheating far more useful to risk teams than character screening.

Compliance says permitted; everyone in the room says wrong. Green's moral theory of white-collar crime is the most rigorous attempt to say precisely which wrong, and why it matters.

Sacked and broke in the Depression, Herbert Yardley published what American codebreakers had been reading. He took no documents, only what he knew, and it cost years.

Gavin de Becker spent a career predicting violence. His argument: the unease you cannot yet explain is data. Our review: pre-incident indicators, manufactured trust, and what they mean for diligence.

Almost every corporate fraud was known internally first. Tom Mueller's interviews with whistleblowers show the failure is rarely detection — it is what the organization does to whoever reports.