Browsing BI Open by Journals "Deviant Behavior"
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The American Dream: Empirical Perspectives on Convenient Deviance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents a sample of ten American dreamers who demonstrated convenient deviance. The sample is derived from publicly available sources such as autobiographies by dreamers, media coverage, and investigation ... -
Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate Offenders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article presents a review of the research addressing the seriousness of corporate crime and the convenience for corporate offenders. Insights from this review are important as detection and prevention of corporate ... -
Convenience Dynamics in White-Collar Crime: Financial Motive, Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)System dynamics modeling enables the study of cause-and-effect relationships as well as causal feedback loops. Based on a structural model of white-collar convenience, this article suggests a dynamic model of white-collar ... -
Convenience in White-Collar Crime: A Case Study of Unknown Perpetrator at Popcorn Time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The theory of convenience suggests that characteristics of white-collar offenders include motive, opportunity, and willingness for deviant behavior. This article discusses the case of offenders developing and supporting ... -
Convenience Theory and Cybercrime Opportunity: An Analysis of Online Cyber Offending
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The private nature of business creates opportunities for financial crimes. Convenience theory suggests that opportunity, accompanied by a willingness and motive, explains financial crimes. Newer technologies have created ... -
Convenience triangle in white-collar crime: An empirical study of prison sentences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The theory of convenience suggests that the likelihood of white-collar offenses is dependent on financial motives, organizational opportunities, and personal willingness to commit and conceal financial crime in an occupational ... -
Crime Signal Detection Theory: Two Case Studies of the Five-Stage Model from Observer to Whistleblower
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The objective of this article is to present a study of two observers turning into whistleblowers through stages of crime signal detection, registration, interpretation, reception, and knowledge. The study applies signal ... -
Empirical Testing of an Integrated Criminological Theory: The Case of Deductive Convenience for White-Collar Offenders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper presents the integrated theory of convenience with its dimensions and structural model. Convenience statements derive from the structural model. The research suggests that offenders will find crime more convenient ... -
From Crime Convenience to Punishment Inconvenience: The Case of Detected White-Collar Offenders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The theory of convenience suggests that white-collar offenders find it convenient to use illegitimate gain to explore possibilities and avoid threats. Furthermore, there is convenient access to resources to commit and ... -
Gender and Crime: Convenience for Pink-Collar Offenders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Traditionally, research on the gender fraction of women in white-collar crime has focused on female lack of financial motive, organizational opportunity, and personal willingness for deviant behavior. This article applies ... -
Gender and White-Collar Crime: Convenience in Target Selection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We find support for the idea that gender affects target selection when committing white-collar crime. Based on the theory of convenience, we argue that male and female offenders vary in their perceptions of convenience ... -
Modeling the theoretical structure of deviant convenience in white-collar crime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The research literature on the white-collar crime phenomenon has accumulated for several decades. This article attempts to organize important research contributions under the umbrella term of convenience, which implies ... -
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents survey research in Romania to identify support or lack of support for propositions in convenience theory as they relate to motive, opportunity, and willingness. The research is important, as ... -
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sanctions have criminalizing consequences. This paper addresses the issue of Russian businesses attempting to circumvent and evade sanctions by white-collar and corporate crime. The case presented in this paper concerns a ... -
Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice when corporate investigators ...