Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031161223)

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
ISBN-10: 303116122X
ISBN-13: 9783031161223
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d