Gender and Crime

Convenience for Pink-Collar Offenders

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2153454
AutoresPetter Gottschalk (0000-0002-8120-0308, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas213-227
Data de publicação2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2020.1794270
OpenAlexW3042418449
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas105

Traditionally, research on the gender fraction of women in white-collar crime has focused on female lack of financial motive, organizational opportunity, and personal willingness for deviant behavior. This article applies the opposite perspective of traditional gender research on white-collar crime in terms of special female motive, opportunity, and willingness. This article challenges prior research regarding female involvement in white-collar crime. Based on the theory of convenience, this article identifies convenience themes that are gender-specific in favor of pink-collar offenders. In the motive dimension of convenience theory, we find concern for others and strain causing depression and anxiety. In the opportunity dimension, we find that women have the advantage of facing suspicion of misconduct, wrongdoing, and crime to a far lesser extent compared to men. In the willingness dimension, we find that women as followers can justify their actions and neutralize their potential guilt feelings far better than men in the role of leaders in crime can neutralize what they have done

Anxiety · Business · Collar · Criminology · Feeling · General strain theory · Juvenile delinquency · Misconduct · Political science · Psychiatry · White (mutation · White-collar crime · Wrongdoing · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses