This book deals with the topic of white-collar crime and considers the role
of convenience in explaining its occurrence. It puts forward convenience
as a theoretical explanation that underlies existing theories and research
on white-collar crime.
Convenience seems present in all three dimensions of crime: economic
dimension, organizational dimension, and behavioral dimension.
Convenience in white-collar crime implies savings in time and effort by
privileged and trusted individuals to solve a problem, where alternatives
seem less attractive, and future threats of detection and punishment
are minimal. The proposed theory of convenience in white-collar crime
emerges as an integrated explanation in need of more theoretical work
as well as empirical study. This book presents ideas that are grounded in
the existing literature, and these ideas represent a novel perspective: They
answer questions that are not adequately explained by the existing literature
or provide different answers to “how…?,” “why…?,” and “when…?”
questions.