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Explaining White-Collar Crime

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A number of theories from criminology, management, sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior have been introduced to explain occurrences of white-collar crime. In this chapter, such theories are integrated into a main theory of convenience. In convenience theory, previous theories are organized into three dimensions: economical motive, organizational opportunity, and deviant behavior. Convenience can be found in all three dimensions when white-collar crime occurs.

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Gottschalk, P. (2016). Convenience Theory. In: Explaining White-Collar Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44986-9_2

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