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This chapter tests the theory of convenience by a case study of three convicted individuals after treatment of desulphurization waste. Both the chief executive officer and the chairperson of the board at Vest Tank in Norway, as well as a chemical advisor to the company, received prison sentences for the case presented in this chapter. The verdict is an exception rather than the rule when it comes to illegitimate financial savings and rewards from environmental crime by white-collar offenders. For example, after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, prosecutors brought criminal charges against four British Petroleum executives, but no one ended up in prison. This chapter applies the theory of convenience to the case of Vest Tank pollution in Norway. Convenience theory is an emerging perspective on white-collar crime that provides insights into motive, opportunity, and willingness.

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Gottschalk, P. (2021). Vest Tank Case Study. In: Detecting and Investigating Environmental Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74184-6_3

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