Browsing BI Open by Author "Gottschalk, Petter"
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A case study of criminal leaders versus criminal followers: An empirical study of white-collar criminals’ characteristics and imprisonment years
Gottschalk, Petter; Glasø, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013) -
A Dark Side of Computing and Information Sciences: Characteristics of Online Groomers
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The European Online Grooming Project from 2009 to 2011 involved researchers from Norway, Italy, Belgium and the UK. The project had three separate but interlinked phases. The first was a scooping project. The second and ... -
Actions on suspicion of white-collar crime in business organizations: An empirical study of intended responses by Chief financial officers
Gottschalk, Petter (Academic article, 2011)The most economically disadvantaged members of society are not the only ones committing crime. Members of the privileged socioeconomic class are also engaged in criminal behavior. The types of crime may differ from those ... -
The American Dream: Empirical Perspectives on Convenient Deviance
Gottschalk, Petter (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 ... -
Analysis of economic crime in religious institutions using convenience theory: What is so special about motive, opportunity and willingness
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)There is a research debate whether or not religious people demonstrate less delinquent behavior in terms of white-collar crime. This article focuses on those members of religious institutions who become offenders, and the ... -
Application of convenience theory and evaluation of Fraud examination: The case of the Deloitte investigation of the Sheriff's Office in Philadelphia
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Fraud examiners from global accounting firms and local law firms are hired by private and public organizations to investigate suspicion of financial crime committed by white-collar offenders. Reports of the investigations ... -
Application of the theory of convenience to a case of illegal Public procurement of Healthcare services
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We address the following research question in this article: how can convenience theory in terms of motive, opportunity, and willingness explain deviant behaviour in the case of public procurement of healthcare services in ... -
Approaches to the empirical study of convenience theory for white-collar crime
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Convenience theory suggests that members of the elite in society commit financial crime in their professional roles when alternative actions require too much effort. Convenience is a relative concept where white-collar ... -
Attitudes of police managers to different leadership roles in their jobs: An empirical study in Norway
Gottschalk, Petter; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background for this study is the increased complexity in policing that has become more knowledge-based and more professional in the last decade. Aim of this paper is to present empirical results from a study of attitudes ... -
Becoming a learning organization: The espoused value of police managers from two Norwegian districts
Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which espoused values among police managers in the Norwegian police force are compatible with those of a learning organization. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Benefits Fraud by Norwegian Politicians in Parliament: Convenience Theory Perspectives
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article, 2023)The theoretical goal of this article is to examine the case of a recent benefits fraud scandal among Norwegian parliamentarians, who received various payments they were not entitled to, through the lens of convenience ... -
Blame Game and Rotten Apples in Private Investigation Reports: The Case of Hadeland and Ringerike Broadband in Norway
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The blame game is a term often used to describe a phenomenon which happens in groups of people when something goes wrong. The blame game hypothesis postulates that private investigators may be misled in their search for ... -
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Claim Investigated by Special Master Freeh: A Case for Application of Convenience Theory to White-Collar Misconduct
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)After an oil spill in the Gulf, British Petroleum had to compensate victims of the accident. The total compensation was $11 billion. As suggested by the theory of convenience, a financial motive, an organizational ... -
Chairman of the board incarcerated for white-collar crime after bankruptcy: What does his autobiography tell us about convenience?
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Some members of the upper echelon in society violate laws whenever they feel necessary. They have access to resources to commit and conceal financial crime while they deny the guilty mind. Autobiographies by convicted ... -
Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate Offenders
Gottschalk, Petter; Hamerton, Christopher (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 ... -
Characteristics of financial crime investigation reports by fraud examiners
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The activity of private investigations by fraud examiners is a business of lawyers, auditors and other professionals who investigate suspicions of financial crime by white-collar criminals. This article presents results ... -
Characteristics of white-collar criminals: a Norwegian study
Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This article addresses the following research question: What are the characteristics of white-collar criminals in Norway? Our research is based on data from articles in Norwegian financial newspapers for one year were a ... -
Conceptual framework for police deviance applied to police crime court cases
Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Purpose – A conceptual framework for police deviance and crime has recently been suggested and presented by other scholars. This research attempts to test the framework empirically based on court cases where police employees ... -
Content analysis of press releases from the Norwegian serious fraud office: What do the messages say about focal concerns?
Gottschalk, Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Purpose This article reviews 69 press releases published by the Norwegian Økokrim from June 2022 to November 2023. The presented research applies the theory of focal concerns to identify the main themes in the press ... -
Convenience Dynamics in White-Collar Crime: Financial Motive, Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior
Gottschalk, Petter (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 ...