The Gender Gap in White-Collar Crime : A Multi-Country Study of Women Offenders in Economic Crime

White collar crimes have historically been associated with men, because women have historically been left out of significant business sectors and economic markets generally. In recent years, women’s involvement in business is more frequent, leading to an interesting question: does this increase in economic participation by women lead to an increased proportion of women committing white-collar?

This new book, The Gender Gap in White-Collar Crime: A Multi-Country Study of Women Offenders in Economic Crime, helps to answer this question by extensively studying white collar crimes, focusing on the disparity in such crimes between men and women. It also looks at how pink collar crime differs dramatically in different countries, with case studies from various countries such as Norway, US, Iran, Denmark, and others to further enhance the understanding of the explained concepts.

The volume offers a specific focus on the convenience theory, an integrated theory originally created by Gottschalk, to explain general white-collar crime. Both theoretical arguments and empirical work examine the validity of the theory for explaining women white-collar crime. With authors geographically located around the world, adding an international focus, and given the variety of diverse participation of women in economic systems around the world, the authors consider international perspectives of white-collar crime. The volume also focuses on crimes of convenience in cybercrime by considering the importance of gender in the history of internet crime and the relationship between cybercrime and white-collar crime. The authors also suggest potential paths for future gender research in the perspective of women in white-collar crime and convenience theory.

Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical works to explain women’s white-collar crimes from an international perspective, this book will be of interest to faculty, students, and others who study white-collar crime. Anyone interested in advancing their understanding of white-collar crime, gender, criminological theory, and international differences in crime will also find this book extremely enlightening.