Corporate Compliance and Conformity

2  Profiling White-Collar Offenders

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-4

The perspective of convenience theory emphasizes that white-collar offenders have financial motives from either possibilities or threats, and they have opportunity in their professions both to commit financial crime and to conceal it. Furthermore, their deviance willingness might derive from personal choice or perceived innocence. A total of 14 convenience themes are suggested in the structural convenience model, where only a few typically apply to a specific offender at an identified incident. By including some themes while disregarding others, an offender profile will emerge. Profiles thus vary among offenders. Some have an opportunity structure mainly of committing crime, ...