Introduction

Hamerton, Christopher and Gottschalk, Petter (2022) Introduction. In, Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control. 1st ed. London. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16123-0_1).

Abstract

This introductory chapter establishes the aims, rationale, and scope of the book, which applies the theory of convenience to provide criminological insight into the enduring self-regulatory phenomenon of corporate compliance. In overview, convenience theory suggests that compliance is challenged when the corporation has a strong financial motive for illegitimate profits, ample organizational opportunities to commit and conceal wrongdoing, and executive willingness for deviant behavior. Focusing on white-collar deviance and crime within corporations, it is argued that lack of compliance is recurrently a matter of deviant behavior by senior executives within organizations who abuse their privileged positions to commission, commit, and conceal financial crime.

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Author: Christopher Hamerton

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