1st Edition

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

288 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

288 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

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 crime? Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical works to explain women’s white-collar crimes from an international perspective, this new book helps to... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Theory of Convenience

3. Gender Stage Model Norway

4. Gender Stage Model Utah

5. Women’s Target Selection

6. White-Collar Gender Gap

7. Gender Perspective on Corruption

8. Norwegian Offender Cases

9. Comparison of Iran and Norway

10. Female Cyber Offenders

11. Gendered Crime Convenience

12. Future Gender Research

13. Convenience Perceptions

14. Convenience Themes

15. Danish Offender Cases

Biography

Maryam Kamaei is the Director of the Law Department at Scientific and Applied University and a lecturer at the Ahvaz branch of Islamic Azad University. She holds a master’s degree in criminal law and criminology and is currently a PhD candidate. She has been researching women and white-collar crime since 2019.

Petter Gottschalk, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. He has published extensively on white-collar crime, convenience theory, and corporate investigations. Dr. Gottschalk has held several chief executive officer positions in business before joining academia.

Thomas E. Dearden, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA. His work focuses on the interaction of whitecollar crime and cybercrime. He has more than a dozen academic publications and over 40 presentations to his credit. He has consulted for several organizations across the globe.