Petter Gottschalk 
Trusted White-Collar Offenders 
Global Cases Studies of Crime Convenience

This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives. Drawing on the theory of convenience, this book opens up new perspectives of white-collar offenders in terms of their financial motives, their professional opportunities, and their personal willingness for deviant behaviour. It focusses on three groups of privileged individuals who have abused their positions for economic gain: people who occupied the position of chair of the board, people who were chief executive officers, and female offenders in top positions, and the related white-collar crimes. Convenience themes are identified in each case using the structural model for convenience theory. The case studies are from Denmark, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. This book speaks to those interested in white-collar crime, criminal justice, policing, organizational behaviour and business administration.

Table of Content

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Theory of Crime Convenience.- Chapter 3. Potential Offenders v. Non-Offenders.- Chapter 4. White-Collar Crime Seriousness.- Part II Case Studies.- Chapter 5. Chair of the Board.- Chapter 6. Chief Executive Officer.- Chapter 7. Trusted Female Offenders.- Part III Convenience Dynamics.- Chapter 8. Gender Fraction Stage Model.- Chapter 9. Crime Convenience Evolution.- Chapter 10. Forecasting Crime Occurrence.- Chapter 11. White-Collar Community.- Chapter 12 Conclusion.

About the author

Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Dr Gottschalk has published extensively on knowledge management, white-collar crime, fraud investigations, and convenience theory. Before joining academia, he held executive positions in business enterprises.