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Book SynopsisThis insightful book illustrates thirteen case studies demonstrating the convenience theory of white-collar crime. Offering an integrated deductive perspective through a convenience lens, Petter Gottschalk provides crucial insights into the motives, opportunities and behaviors behind executive deviance.
Featuring a unique examination of era-defining cases of white-collar crime, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the Olympus scandal, Gottschalk closely follows legal accounts to paint an international picture of executive deviance. This book scrutinizes public opinion of deviant behavior and how public sentiment towards white-collar crime has changed over time. Offering an innovative view of executive deviance, Gottschalk concludes by testing the integrated theory of convenience through empirical surveys of white-collar offenders.
Audacious and illuminating, this book is crucial reading for researchers and students of business, criminal law and criminology, sharing a unique angle on the world of executive deviance through empirical research. Its real-world observations will also be crucial to policymakers and legal practitioners.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Convenience Case of Navy Commander 2. Convenience Case of Chief Executive Officer 3. Convenience Case of Corruption Blame 4. Convenience Case of Investment Fraud 5. Rich and Mighty on the Shoreline 6. Corruption among Friends 7. Germany: Thomas Middelhoff 8. United States: Bernard Kerik 9. United States: Jordan Belfort 10. Japan: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa 11. Environmental Crime Convenience 12. Game Over for Executives 13. Corruption in China Trade 14. Seriousness of Executive Deviance Bibliography Index
