Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience And Control

Compliance has long been identified by scholars of white-collar crime as a key strategic control device in the regulation of corporations and complex organisations. Nevertheless, this essential process has been largely ignored within criminology as a specific subject for close scrutiny – Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control seeks to address this anomaly. This initiating book applies the theory of convenience to provide criminological insight into the enduring self-regulatory phenomenon of corporate compliance. Convenience theory suggests that compliance is challenged when the corporation has a strong financial motive for illegitimate profits, ample organisational opportunities to commit and conceal wrongdoing, and executive willingness for deviant behaviour. Focusing on white-collar deviance and crime within corporations, the book argues that lack of compliance is recurrently a matter of deviant behaviour by senior executives within organisations who abuse their privileged positions to commission, commit and conceal financial crime.

• | Author: Petter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 389 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 303116122X
• | ISBN-13: 9783031161223