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The blame game is a potential aspect of investigation reports in practice, where examiners complete the report by placing the blame for misconduct or crime on individual(s), which the client who ordered the investigation might prefer to see blamed for it. The mandate for a private investigation can be part of the blame game , where the client wants to blame somebody while at the same time diverge attention from somebody else.

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Gottschalk, P. (2017). CEO Blame Games. In: CEOs and White-Collar Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55935-3_7

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