Convenience Dynamics and White-Collar Crime

This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime. It argues that as personal motives change over time, so too do organizational opportunities, and willingness for deviant behavior.

The work contends that the extent of white-collar crime is dependent on the extent of crime convenience perceived and preferred by potential offenders. It discusses how potential white-collar offenders expand organizational opportunities for financial crime over time. The dynamics are illustrated here by system dynamics models to capture cause and effect relationships. The book also presents a new structural model illustrating the elements of convenience theory along with a new dynamic model illustrating the evolution of white-collar crime. The practical aspects are illustrated with a number of case studies.

The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and professionals working in the areas of Criminal Justice, Criminology, Criminal Law and Business Studies.

1 Deviant Convenience Structure

2 Deviant Convenience Dynamics

3 Negative Organizational Dynamics

4 White-Collar Convenience Evolution

5 Operationalization of Convenience

6 White-Collar Convenience Themes

7 Social Security Fraud

8 Case Study: FIFA Bidding Process

9 Filling the Governance Gap

10 Case Study: Movie Piracy

11 Stage Model for Offenders

12 Crisis-Response Dynamics

Petter Gottschalk is a professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Gottschalk has published extensively on knowledge management, intelligence strategy, police investigations, white-collar crime, and fraud examinations.