Profiling of potential offenders

Gottschalk, Petter and Hamerton, Christopher (2022) Profiling of potential offenders. In, Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control. 1st ed. London. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 269-285. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16123-0_12).

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the profiling of potential offenders in consideration of direct preventive work against wrongdoing. Offering a structural model as a potentially useful tool in fraud investigations, defense strategies, and prosecution approaches. Convenience theory is employed to emphasize that white-collar criminals have financial motives either from possibilities or threats, professional opportunity both to commit and to conceal crime, and that their willingness for deviant action might derive from personal choice or perceived innocence. A total of fourteen convenience themes are suggested in the structural convenience model, with 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. The chapter evaluates profile variations among offenders, contending that some possess an opportunity structure mainly of committing crime, while others an opportunity structure of concealing crime. Some made crime a rational choice, while others deny wrongdoing.

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