White-collar crime motivation

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Chapter 1 in Corporate White-Collar Crime Scandals, 2020, pp 1-18 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter addresses the motivational side of financial crime by white-collar offenders. Motives exist in possibilities and threats for individuals and organizations. Motives found in attractive individual and corporate economic possibilities can make crime seem a convenient avenue to achieve ambitions and goals. Motives found in painful individual and corporate economic threats can make crime seem a convenient avenue to avoid collapse and bankruptcy. In addition to these motivational perspectives, a rational self-interest motivation is independent of the beneficiary of financial crime. The relative convenience of crime determines how needs are met by potential offenders.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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