ABSTRACT
Crime signal detection is dependent on knowledge and understanding of the white-collar crime phenomenon. This chapter reframes theory into a convenience hypothesis that can be tested by research propositions, rather than applying the theory of convenience. The convenience hypothesis suggests that white-collar crime is committed by offenders out of convenience. The chapter proposes the idea of convenience in white-collar crime by explaining the theoretical foundation and suggest propositions for future research. The convenience hypothesis may serve as an integrated framework for future studies of white-collar offenders. The convenience hypothesis finds its theoretical foundation in a number of theories related to financial motive, organizational opportunity and deviant behavior. Three dimensions of the convenience hypothesis are linked, suggesting that white-collar crime is convenient when there is a financial motive in the economic dimension, an opportunity to commit and conceal crime in the organizational dimension and a personal willingness in the behavioral dimension.
