Research Perspectives on White-Collar and Corporate Crime Convenience

This study identify current research perspectives on white-collar and corporate crime convenience; an important emergent area of research. It applies the theory of convenience to research articles on white-collar and corporate crime, recently published in the most relevant journals addressing economic crime. This kind of white-collar corporate crime is often committed by persons of respectability and high social status, who commit financial crime based on their trusted professional positions with high social status.

While convenience theory covers fourteen convenience propositions, there is varying attention to them in the reviewed articles. For example, a frequent topic analysed in the journal articles is online romance fraud, where victims were not on guard because they trusted their offenders. Trust tends to strengthen the convenience proposition addressing lack of guardianship, oversight, and control.

The book adds substance to the theory of convenience that emerged less than a decade ago, and has since been developing and applied by various scholars. The review is also interesting from the perspective of understanding what aspects of crime convenience are implicitly and explicitly addressed in economic criminology research; that is whether motives, opportunities, or attitudes are mainly addressed in financial crime research so far.

The second part of the book presents several short case studies on topics including fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering.

The final part of the book discusses gender convenience perspectives, and the emerging issues around digital fraud.