Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior: Convenience in White-Collar Crime

Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior: Convenience in White-Collar Crime
ISBN-10
1788111885
ISBN-13
9781788111881
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2017-12-29
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Author
Petter Gottschalk

Description

Ever since Sutherland coined the term ‘white-collar crime’, researchers have struggled to understand and explain why some individuals abuse their privileged positions of trust and commit financial crime. This book makes a novel contribution to the development of convenience theory as a framework to understand and explain ‘white-collar crime’.