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Convenience Theory of White-Collar Crime

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Convenience theory suggests that financial motive to avoid crises and exploit possibilities, organizational opportunity to commit and conceal crime, as well as personal willingness for deviant behavior are three dimensions in convenience orientation by white-collar offenders.

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Gottschalk, P. (2018). Convenience Theory of White-Collar Crime. In: Investigating White-Collar Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68916-6_2

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