Conclusion

Hamerton, Christopher and Gottschalk, Petter (2022) Conclusion. In, Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control. 1 ed. London. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 287-291. (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16123-0).

Abstract

Rather than standard recommendations regarding corporate compliance based on formal regulations and cultural norms, this book has chosen a perspective of corporate compliance based on prevention of potential offenders and detection of actual offenders. Potential offences derive from offender convenience in terms of financial motives, organizational opportunities, and personal willingness for deviant behavior. This book’s perspective has thus been to reduce the convenience for potential offenders. As the famous criminologist Agnew (2014: 2) formulated it: “crime is often the most expedient way to get what you want” and “fraud is often easier, simpler, faster, more exciting, and more certain than other means of securing one’s ends”. This perspective was exemplified by a number of case studies where privileged organizational members were detected in their wrongdoing. All of these case studies should provide the reader with many ideas how to conduct corporate compliance work that matters.

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Author: Christopher Hamerton

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