By 
Kelly Pope
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How people rationalize fraud

If you ask people whether they think stealing is wrong most of them would answer yes. And yet in 2013 organizations all over the world lost an estimated total of $3.7 trillion to fraud. Kelly Richmond Pope explains how the fraud triangle (developed by criminologist Donald Cressey) can help us understand how seemingly good people can make unethical decisions in their daily lives.

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