Women and White-Collar Criminals: Comparison of Pink-Collar and White-Collar Crimes in the Law of Iran and Norway
Subject Areas : Jurisprudence and Criminal Law Doctrines
Maryam Kamaei
1
(PhD student, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Khuzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.)
Salameh Abolhasani
2
(Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Naghme Farhod
3
(Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Andimeshk Branch, Islamic Azad University, Andimeshk, Iran)
Keywords: women crimes, pink-collar crime, white-collar crime, gender and occurrence of crime,
Abstract :
White-collar crimes are crimes that are mainly committed by people from the high social and economic class. Katie Daly popularized the term "pink collar". This term refers to the white-collar crimes that women committed in their workplaces. The importance of white-collar crimes and pink-collar crimes and its wide range of impact on the basic dimensions of a society is non-negligible; for this reason, serious effort and strict planning is necessary in supervising the behavior of perpetrators of such crimes and their punishments. This research considers the gender status in white-collar crimes in Iran and Norway; that the occurrence of the white-collar crimes is gender neutral or includes a special gender; so the difference between men and women in terms of the nature of white-collar crimes and their roles in these crimes are examined. The findings of research suggest that the occurrence of white-collar crimes in Norway and Iran are similar to each other and this hypothesis that gender segregation in society and workplace is the cause of white-collar crimes is questionable. As a result, gender inequality is not the origin of the gender gap in white-collar crimes, as far as it is related to access to the labor market and other resources.
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