Pink Collar Crime Replies
Evan Castillo
Women are not simply being criminal but are pushed into it for many reasons. If you look at a study by Dodge (2007), From pink to white with various shades of embezzlement: Women who commit white-collar crimes, you will realize that even though these sort of crimes were traditionally committed by men, women started getting involved due to reasons such as limited opportunities available to them and less involvement in better paying corporate positions which men easily access. As stated by Daly (1989) in the book Gender and varieties of white-collar crime, fewer women inherit resources like their male counterparts. While working in higher positions, women perceive it as a prospect to earn themselves money and power by engaging in embezzlement.
Dodge, M. (2007). From pink to white with various shades of embezzlement: Women who commit white-collar crimes. In International handbook of white-collar and corporate crime (pp. 379-404). Springer, Boston, MA.
Daly, K. (1989). Gender and varieties of white‐collar crime. Criminology, 27(4), 769-794.
Evan Castillo
Dear Evan, the idea of women being pink-collar criminals is portrayed by Lutz (2019) in the book titled Pink-Collar Crime. Based on this authorship, women are mostly low-level embezzlers who commit low-level fraud due to their mainly low-ranking positions. This author states that women in such positions are the main perpetrators of crimes that are not within the purview of white-collar crimes creating a gendered difference between pink-collar and white-collar crimes. Some of the reasons for the differences include women being excluded from work networks, gendered segmentation of the labor market, risk preferences, and concerns among other factors.
Lutz, J. R. (2019). Pink‐Collar Crime. The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, 1-5.