scholarly journals Dramaturgical self-efficacy and opportunity structures for white-collar crime

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Engdahl
Keyword(s):  
Focal Mechanism ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Strong Potential ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPerceived self-efficacy is often held to be the most focal mechanism of human agency. It has shown strong potential to explain action in multiple areas highly relevant to understanding crime, at least when the concept is formulated in close connection with the conditions that characterize the criminal acts it is supposed to explain. This article introduces the concept in the context of white-collar crime. To advance our understanding of how opportunities for such crime work, self-efficacy is defined with regard to one’s ability to control others’ impression of financially relevant information, or what is called dramaturgical self-efficacy. The presentation of this concept and its various elements is illustrated with contemporary empirical cases of white-collar crime and is preceded by a discussion of how opportunity structures and perceived self-efficacy have been understood in previous research relevant to the field. The article also discusses how the concept can be further developed with regard to the relationship between motivation and opportunity for white-collar crime.

scholarly journals Corporate fraud as a threat to the company’s economic security

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Galina Krokhicheva ◽  
Iulia Mezentseva ◽  
Tian Yu
Keyword(s):  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Corporate Fraud ◽  
Economic State ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the study of the organizational and methodological foundations of ensuring economic security through the mechanism of preventing corporate fraud. The influence of “white-collar” crime at the micro level on the overall economic state of the state is considered. The theoretical aspects of corporate fraud are investigated and generalized. The analysis of existing methods and techniques to assess the risk of their occurrence in a particular enterprise is carried out. The emphasis is placed on the assessment of the external operating environment, considered as a source of potential threats to the company’s security, as well as on the study of the risk of corporate fraud in relation to a particular business entity. The authors propose mechanisms to protect the economic interests of the organization from various threats from the staff, which are essential for maintaining the level of its economic security. The findings on the relationship between corporate fraud and micro-level economic security are not conclusive. This indicates the need for further scientific work on the problem, which will logically continue the problems raised in the article.

Crime in the Republic of Ireland: A Suitable Case for Social Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Paul O'Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Social Deprivation ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Suitable Case

This article argues that there has been a lack of critical, theoretically-based analysis of Irish criminal justice. It focuses on three areas that require further theoretically grounded analysis: the relationship between social deprivation and crime, white-collar crime, and the role of the media with respect to crime. It concludes with a possible framework for future social science research on crime in Ireland.

Substance or Semantics? The Consequences of Definitional Ambiguity for White-collar Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda A. Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Past Research ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Justice Statistics ◽  
Operational Strategies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Program Data

Objectives: To determine whether different conceptions (Populist, Patrician) and operationalizations of “white-collar crime” produce different substantive conclusions, using the applied case of sentencing in federal criminal court. Method: Federal Justice Statistics Program data are used to identify white-collar and comparable crimes referred for prosecution in 2009 to 2011 that were also sentenced through 2013. Five different operational strategies are used to identify “white-collar crime” and are employed in separate hurdle regressions jointly capturing incarceration and sentence length. Differences in model coefficients and case composition are discussed across definitions. Results: There are differences in the relationship between “white-collar crime” and incarceration both between and within Populist and Patrician conceptions. These differences are most pronounced at the in/out decision but are also present for sentence length. Conclusions: Contradictory findings from past research are largely able to be replicated within a single sample simply by changing the conception and operationalization of white-collar crime used. This demonstrates that debating what is “truly” white-collar crime is not just an exercise in semantics—it is a conceptual and methodological choice that can have dramatic consequences on what (we think) we know about the treatment of white-collar crime in the criminal justice system.

scholarly journals Corporate Crime Does Pay! The Relationship between Financial Crime and Imprisonment in White-Collar Crime

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petter Gottschalk ◽  
Lars Glasø
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Corporate Crime ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Prison Sentence ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Business Press ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Larger Sample

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. Many of these scholars apply anecdotal evidence to suggest what might be included and what might be excluded from the concepts of white-collar crime and white-collar criminals. On contrast, with a larger sample, we can study white-collar crime convictions using statistical techniques to identify relationships between variables. For example, it has been suggested that the amount involved in the crime (fraud, corruption, etc.) is an important factor when the judge decides the length of the prison sentence. In our sample of 255 criminal cases we identified 88 corporate criminals and 167 occupational criminals. Age when convicted was 47 years for occupational criminals and 49 years for corporate criminals. Furthermore, occupational criminals served 2.2 years in prison, while corporate criminals served only 2.1 years. This is particularly interesting, when the amount of money that was involved in the crime is taken into account. While occupational criminals on average abused 26 million Norwegian kroner, corporate criminals on average abused as much as 121 million Norwegian kroner. So, even if the magnitude of the financial crime in terms of money was substantially and significantly larger for corporate crime, occupational crime was nevertheless judged more severely in terms of imprisonment.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Tolerance For Ambiguity And Students Propensity To Cheat On A College Exam

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Thompson ◽  
Jane S. Austin ◽  
Bruce A. Walters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
New World ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity ◽  
The Relationship

Businesses in the United States are being ravaged internally for a total of up to $400 billion yearly by white-collar crime (Martin, 1998).   Fraud, the culprit, is defined as, “deceit; trickery; cheating” (Webster’s New World dictionary, 1978).  This phenomenon knows no bounds, has no feelings, respects no one; and its perpetrators are described as the “greatest threat to businesses of all sizes” by Mark Simmons, a New York-based auditor with 20 years’ experience of fighting fraud (Applegate, 1998).  This exploratory study is aimed at gaining a greater understanding of the psychological consistency of these perpetrators, who remain a constant threat to business education.

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