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

Discusses white collar crimes, focusing on the disparity in such crimes between men and women. Focuses on the convenience theory, to explain general white-collar crime. Covers crimes of convenience in cybercrime by considering the importance of gender in the history of internet crime and the relationship between cyber and white-collar crime.

Maryam Kamaei, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Ahvaz branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz. As of 2019, she has focused on investigating women and white-collar crime. She is currently the Director of the law Department of the University of Applied Sciences, Ahvaz Police Command Unit and the Senior Planning Director of this University.

Petter Gottschalk, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. 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 white-collar 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.