dc.contributor.author | Gottschalk, Petter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-15T13:46:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-15T13:46:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0973-5089 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/93614 | |
dc.description | This article was published in an Open Access journal, available from http://www.sascv.org/ | no_NO |
dc.description.abstract | White-collar crime is financial crime committed by white-collar criminals. Sensational white-collar
crime cases regularly appear in the international business press and studies in journals of ethics and
crime. It is certainly an interesting issue whether to view white-collar misconduct and crime as acts of
individuals perceived as 'rotten apples' or as an indication of systems failure in the company, the
industry or the society as a whole. The perspective of occupational crime is favoring the individualistic
model of deviance, which is a human failure model of misconduct and crime. This rotten apple view of
white-collar crime is a comfortable perspective to adopt for business organizations as it allows them to
look no further than suspect individuals. In our sample of 255 convicted white-collar criminals, rotten
apples received a jail sentence of 2.8 years on average, while rotten barrel members received only 1.9
years. The sample was drawn from newspaper accounts in Norway from 2009 to 2012. | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) | no_NO |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.sascv.org/ijcjs/pdfs/Gottschalkijcjs2012iindissue.pdf | |
dc.subject | Financial crime | no_NO |
dc.subject | white-collar criminal | no_NO |
dc.subject | empirical study | no_NO |
dc.subject | prison | no_NO |
dc.subject | corporate crime | no_NO |
dc.title | Rotten apples versus rotten barrels in white collar crime : A qualitative analysis of white collar offenders in Norway | no_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | no_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 575-590 | no_NO |
dc.source.volume | 7 | no_NO |
dc.source.journal | International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences | no_NO |
dc.source.issue | 2 | no_NO |