Gendered Perspectives on Social License and Corporate Crime

This chapter is founded on empirical evidence of stable female involvement in white-collar crime independent of the extent of gender inequality in India, Norway, Portugal, Iran, and the United States, with relative convenience emerging as a potential explanation of the stability. Coverage attempts to move beyond the traditional perspectives of emancipation versus focal concern, which argue that less inequality will increase women involvement in white-collar crime versus women socializing into accepting responsibilities for social concerns by caring for others. Examining the notion of gendered corporate social license the chapter considers convenience theory propositions which include gender motive variability, gender willingness variability, and associated perceptions of the glass ceiling and the glass cliff and the impact of such concepts on the study of corporate crime.