RATIONAL CHOICE, CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR, AND THE ECO-GENDER GAP

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dc.contributor.advisorSimpson, Sally Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorEvens, Jocelyn Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-23T05:43:54Z
dc.date.available2024-09-23T05:43:54Z
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractGender is a strong correlate of crime-including white-collar and corporate crime, with men having a higher propensity compared to women (Steffensmeier & Allen, 1996; Fagan, 2002; Kruttschnitt, 2013; Benson & Harbinson, 2020). This project specifically focuses on how men and women think about or make decisions regarding corporate environmental crime. Of particular interest is whether and how gender may be linked to corporate environmental offending and its counterpart "overcompliance" given that some research has uncovered an "eco-gender" gap in attitudes toward the environment. Using a factorial survey of environmental noncompliance and overcompliance vignettes that asks about their willingness to act as the depicted manager, I assess their evaluation of factors manipulated in the scenario and whether other characteristics (not experimentally manipulated) affect their behavioral intentions. I use a subjective utility model and employ regression analyses to further understand whether and how gender plays a role in decision-making. The evidence from the analyses forces me to fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is an eco-gender gap in corporate environmental decisions.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/i41a-ro1i
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/33305
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCriminologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcorporate environmental crimeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledeco-gender gapen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledenvironmental overcomplianceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrational choice theoryen_US
dc.titleRATIONAL CHOICE, CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR, AND THE ECO-GENDER GAPen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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