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Henry Forger: A Psychological Study Of the Criminal Alias

Henry Forger: A Psychological Study Of the Criminal Alias AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1977) 10 (17-26) 17 HENRY FORGER: A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL ALIAS Roger Boshier" There is no way of establishing the extent of alias use in any society. Nevertheless people book into hotels or travel under assumed names; we know of people who change their name as part of a total self-concept overhaul; we know of women who have left their husband and changed their name; we know of people who modify or abandon their name because of its connotations (eg Ramsbottom to Ramage), we know of celebrities who travel incognito with an assumed name and people who change their name because it fails to confirm sex role expectations. The number of people using an alias is unknown, but New Zealanders were surprised when the inter-island ferry Wahine was sunk by a fierce storm and police had great difficulty in matching names of the passenger lists with the names survivors gave as they struggled ashore. All these behaviours are of psychological significance. But although there is a literature on the psychology of names (eg Boshier, 1968, 1968a, 1973; Hartman, 1958, 1968) there is little on alias use. Despite the fact criminality http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1977) 10 (17-26) 17 HENRY FORGER: A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL ALIAS Roger Boshier" There is no way of establishing the extent of alias use in any society. Nevertheless people book into hotels or travel under assumed names; we know of people who change their name as part of a total self-concept overhaul; we know of women who have left their husband and changed their name; we know of people who modify or abandon their name because of its connotations (eg Ramsbottom to Ramage), we know of celebrities who travel incognito with an assumed name and people who change their name because it fails to confirm sex role expectations. The number of people using an alias is unknown, but New Zealanders were surprised when the inter-island ferry Wahine was sunk by a fierce storm and police had great difficulty in matching names of the passenger lists with the names survivors gave as they struggled ashore. All these behaviours are of psychological significance. But although there is a literature on the psychology of names (eg Boshier, 1968, 1968a, 1973; Hartman, 1958, 1968) there is little on alias use. Despite the fact criminality

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1977

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