ABSTRACT
Media coverage of individual criminals was again used as identification for crime cases, which were then found in court rulings. This chapter is based on empirical research of convicted white-collar criminals. Out of 305 convicts presented in newspaper articles, most of them were men. There were very few women. Women convicted of white-collar crime had significantly lower management positions than convicted men. It is indeed hard to believe that Norwegian men commit 10 times more white-collar crime than Norwegian women also because Norway is seen as a salient egalitarian country. Therefore, it is a question of whether the detection rate for female whitecollar criminals is lower than that for male white-collar criminals. More attention needs to be paid to characteristics of female white-collar crime in the future. Rather than presenting some cases and anecdotal evidence, this chapter presents some statistical evidence to suggest and make conclusions about gender differences in white-collar crime conviction. It is about female participation in white-collar crime.
