...Michel Dion Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use Kierkegaard’s life-views (aesthetical, ethicist and religious life-views) for better understanding the way fraudsters are dealing with their ontic-existentiell guilt, while developing rationalization tactics. Design/methodology/approach...

... Guilt Corpus delicti Criminal intent Mens rea Motive of crime Some authors distinguish several types of criminal intents. For example, according to K.M. Orobets, among criminal intents, one of the most common ones is lucri causa, with which a person wishes to acquire material goods...