The Personal Convenience Triangle as Conformance Determinant
摘要
This final substantive chapter explores how individual status, identity, and trust influence perceptions and practices of conformance in the context of white-collar and corporate crime. Through an extensive literature review, the chapter develops research propositions that examine these factors from an offender-based perspective. It introduces the concept of the “personal convenience triangle”, analyzing how the interplay between status, social identity, and trust shapes offender behavior and impacts emerging expectations of corporate conformance in the modern era, addressing key concepts when studying offenders in white-collar and corporate crime (Gottschalk & Hamerton, 2024a, 2024b). Offender status, identity, and trust tend to influence individual offender convenience when committing occupational crime (Gottschalk & Hamerton, 2025). The relationships between these key concepts need to be explored in the offender-based perspective by research propositions which link to expectations of socio-economic conformance. In doing so, the mutual influences among the three concepts are studied in terms of the personal convenience triangle resulting in a theoretical exploration which encompasses discrete status, social identity, and levels of trust.