TY - JOUR
T1 - From the Avalanche to the Game
T2 - White-Collar Offenders on Crime, Bonds and Morality
AU - van Onna, Joost H.R.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - In order to understand the mechanisms that underlie involvement in white-collar crime on a personal level, 26 offenders convicted of a white-collar offence were interviewed. Building on theory and research from white-collar criminology, life-course criminology and moral psychology, findings show that a combination of criminogenic circumstances, weakened social bonds and adjusted moral ideas lead offenders down different pathways into white-collar offending. Although the process of crime involvement seems highly context-dependent in some instances, the interviews indicate that crime involvement is more commonly part of a long-running process, in which social bonds have weakened or moral ideas have been adjusted, which in turn influenced the decision to engage in the white-collar offence. Along with the limitations of the study and the directions for future research, the paper discusses the implications of the findings for white-collar crime research, in particular the complex role of morality in white-collar crime involvement.
AB - In order to understand the mechanisms that underlie involvement in white-collar crime on a personal level, 26 offenders convicted of a white-collar offence were interviewed. Building on theory and research from white-collar criminology, life-course criminology and moral psychology, findings show that a combination of criminogenic circumstances, weakened social bonds and adjusted moral ideas lead offenders down different pathways into white-collar offending. Although the process of crime involvement seems highly context-dependent in some instances, the interviews indicate that crime involvement is more commonly part of a long-running process, in which social bonds have weakened or moral ideas have been adjusted, which in turn influenced the decision to engage in the white-collar offence. Along with the limitations of the study and the directions for future research, the paper discusses the implications of the findings for white-collar crime research, in particular the complex role of morality in white-collar crime involvement.
KW - Interview
KW - Life-course
KW - Morality
KW - Social bonds
KW - White-collar crime
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U2 - 10.1007/s10611-020-09899-x
DO - 10.1007/s10611-020-09899-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085288464
SN - 0925-4994
VL - 74
SP - 405
EP - 431
JO - Crime, Law and Social Change
JF - Crime, Law and Social Change
IS - 4
ER -