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This study aims to investigate suspects underlying motivations to resist cooperation during investigative interviews. The authors propose a tripartite framework (i.e. concerns for identity, relational and instrumental reasons) for understanding motivations to resist, tested through three qualitative studies.

The authors coded semi-structured debriefs about investigators’ experiences with communicative resistance throughout their careers (n = 40; Study 1), with particularly resistant suspects (n = 18; Study 2) and with both investigators and their suspects (n = 11; Study 3). Coders identified examples illustrative of subcategories within the framework.

The authors found that both investigators and suspects cite various motivations to resist. The participants also highlighted the importance of considering these motivations when devising how to mitigate resistance within an investigative interview.

This research examines the understudied topic of communicative resistance and begins to examine motivations that might underlie the phenomenon. Eliciting and understanding suspects’ resistance motivations should be an important component of mitigating resistance using a rapport-based model.

This paper reviews the recent collapse of two cryptocurrency enterprises, FTX and Celsius. These two cases of institutional bankruptcy have generated criminal charges and other civil complaints, mainly alleging fraud against the CEOs of the companies. This paper aims to analyse the fraud leading to these bankruptcies, drawing on key concepts from the research literature on economic crime to provide explanations for what happened.

This paper uses a case study approach to the question of how large financial institutions can go off the rails. Two theoretical perspectives are applied to the cases of the FTX and Celsius collapses. These are the “normalisation of deviance” theory and the “cult of personality”.

In these two case studies, there is an interaction between the “normalisation of deviance” on the institutional level and the “cult of personality” at the level of individual leadership. The CEOs of the two companies promoted themselves as eccentric but successful examples of the visionary tech finance genius. This fostered the normalisation of deviance within their organisations. Employees, investors and regulators allowed criminal and highly financially risky practices to become normalised as they were caught up in the attractive story of the trailblazing entrepreneur making millions in the new cryptoeconomy.

This paper makes a contribution both to the case study literature on economic crime and to the development of general theory in economic criminology.

The purpose of this article is to investigate why artisanal cheesemakers choose to embrace or reject plant-based cheeses (PBC) through a case study conducted in Tasmania, Australia.

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from artisanal cheesemakers from Tasmania, Australia, this article gives insights into artisanal cheese producers’ perspectives and views on the growing PBC industry. The research is based on qualitative, empirical research conducted in Tasmania between mid-2022 and early 2023 that included literature review, site visits and semi-structured interviews with artisanal cheesemakers.

This article reveals that the reasons given by cheesemakers for embracing or rejecting PBC depend on whether they take a more essentialist or interpretive position on what cheese is. This distinction appears in three key areas: producer definitions of cheese, producer opinions of the form and function of PBC and producer views of PBC in terms of the “art and science” of cheesemaking.

Although there is a growing body of literature analysing the science of plant-based foods, motivations to produce them and consumer responses to these products, broader perspectives of food producers like artisanal cheesemakers that use “traditional” methods, have received less attention. By including the perspectives of cheesemakers this article provides qualitative insights into how producers navigate the cultural and political arenas of food and deal with change in industries that emphasise the importance of tradition.