WOMAN AND WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 92 === For a long time, women play a secondary role politically and economically in the social structure. Same situation happens when it comes to the quality and quantity of research literature regarding female crime. However, female crime has attracted more attentions...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74504178314725759424 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 92 === For a long time, women play a secondary role politically and economically in the social structure. Same situation happens when it comes to the quality and quantity of research literature regarding female crime. However, female crime has attracted more attentions today because of the increasing female employment rates as well as their raising work status. As a possible result, women engaging in white-collar crime have escalated in the past. And the increasing rate of women white-collar crime is even higher than that for men. This research thus intended to achieve three purposes:
1. to compare the different characteristics of women and men engaging in white-collar crime;
2. to compare the nature of crime for women and men committing white-collar crime; and
3. to explore the female white-collar criminal’s life history.
Both in-depth interview and survey methods were used in the study. One selected female inmate committing white-collar crime was interviewed to explore her life story. And 16 female and 13 male inmates committing similar crime were asked to fill out the structural questionnaire. The survey result indicated that the only difference between women and men committing white-collar crime was their consumer life style and intimate relationships. By integrating the analyses of the interview and survey, the study found that several traits can be distinguished for female white-collar criminals from those non-white-collar criminals: 1. female white-collar criminals were more rational; 2. they had less shame; 3. they usually performed well in their job; 4. the crime they committed was part of the corporate crime subculture; and 5. they had limited influence at work.
For suggestions were made by the study:
1. Women should be given a more fair opportunity to compete with men at work.
2. Job ethic should be strengthened for white-collar female workers.
3. The motive of crime should be considered differentially when sentencing female white-collar criminals.
4. Law enforcement agencies should improve their professional knowledge in white-collar crime to increase certainty and swiftness of punishement.
5. Community service and fine can be considered as alternative punishment for female white-collar criminals.
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