5  COVID-19 Creative Non-Compliance

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-7

Creative non-compliance can refer to conveniently complying with the spirit of the law and not with the letter of the law under the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Convenience theory is an emerging theoretical perspective to explain the phenomenon of white-collar crime. This chapter presents a one-sided theoretical study of convenience themes that emerged for white-collar offenders during the COVID-19 pandemic by abuse of governments’ emergency-support packages for business enterprises. Special motives, special opportunities, and special willingness for deviant behavior in abuse of financial aid occurred during the pandemic. Stronger motives – both based on possibilities and ...

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