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Rotten apples versus rotten barrels in white collar crime : A qualitative analysis of white collar offenders in Norway

Gottschalk, Petter
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/93614
Date
2012
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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.
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This article was published in an Open Access journal, available from http://www.sascv.org/
Publisher
the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV)
Journal
International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences

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