ABSTRACT
This chapter presents convenience dynamics in white-collar crime in terms of steps, levels and stages over time. This chapter applies again the offender-based perspective concerned with individuals in white-collar crime. The chapter presents a five-stage model for white-collar offenders, where crime might result mainly from opportunity, motive, justification, choice or strategy. At each of these five levels, a case describes a convicted offender from Norway, Japan, Germany, Sweden and the United States respectively. Classification of offenders at different stages can enable researchers to study different categories of white-collar offenders and their potential paths over time. This chapter applies again the emerging theory of convenience, which suggests that the state of being able to proceed with something with little effort and difficulty, and avoiding pain and strain, is contributing to white-collar crime occurrences.
