@article{ref1,
title="Convenience in white-collar crime: introducing a core concept",
journal="Deviant behavior",
year="2017",
author="Gottschalk, Petter",
volume="38",
number="5",
pages="605-619",
abstract="This article is concerned with white-collar criminals and considers the role of convenience in explaining crime occurrence. The article puts forward convenience as a theoretical concept 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0163-9625",
doi="10.1080/01639625.2016.1197585",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1197585"
}