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The Convenience of White-Collar Crime in Business

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This chapter addresses the motivational side of financial crime by white-collar offenders. Motives exist in possibilities and threats for individuals and organizations. Motives found in attractive individual economic possibilities and attractive corporate economic possibilities can make crime represent a convenient avenue to achieve ambitions and goals. Motives found in painful individual economic threats and painful corporate economic threats can make crime represent a convenient avenue to avoid collapse and bankruptcy. In addition to these four motivational perspectives, rational self-interest motivation is a fifth perspective, which is independent of the beneficiary of financial crime. The relative convenience of crime determines how needs are met by potential offenders.

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Gottschalk, P. (2020). Economical Motive. In: The Convenience of White-Collar Crime in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37990-2_2

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