This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to
defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters
and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and
female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their
sentences in English prisons. Whilst a number of texts have been written
about white-collar crime offenders, very few studies have attempted to
approach this by examining the actual reasons and motives for their
criminal behaviour directly from the offenders. This book aims to make
further progress in this area. By exploring the participants' motives,
opportunities and morality, this book will make a key contribution to
exploring white-collar crime offenders' perspectives of their crimes.
This book not only adds to the academic knowledge in this area, but also
helps organizations to consider the strengths of their crime prevention
methods and appropriateness of their fraud and security policies.