Full Description
Compliance has long been identified by scholars of white-collar crime as a key strategic control device in the regulation of corporations and complex organisations. Nevertheless, this essential process has been largely ignored within criminology as a specific subject for close scrutiny - Corporate Compliance: Crime, Convenience and Control seeks to address this anomaly. This initiating book applies the theory of convenience to provide criminological insight into the enduring self-regulatory phenomenon of corporate compliance. Convenience theory suggests that compliance is challenged when the corporation has a strong financial motive for illegitimate profits, ample organisational opportunities to commit and conceal wrongdoing, and executive willingness for deviant behaviour. Focusing on white-collar deviance and crime within corporations, the book argues that lack of compliance is recurrently a matter of deviant behaviour by senior executives within organisations who abuse their privileged positions to commission, commit and conceal financial crime.
Contents
Chapter 1: Corporation Conformity and Compliance.- Chapter 2: The Theory of Convenience and Compliance.- Chapter 3: Lack of Compliance from Convenience.- Chapter 4: Barriers to Corporate Compliance.- Chapter 5: Roles of Compliance Officers.- Chapter 6: Restoration of Compliance and Control.- Chapter 7: Crime Signal Detection Perspectives.- Chapter 8: Change Management for Corporate Recovery.- Chapter 9: Change Measures for Corporate Control.- Chapter 10: Strategies for Wrongdoing Investigation.- Chapter 11: Profiling of Potential Offenders.
