Analyzing the Causes and Factors
There are many factors behind female criminality like: Biological, psychological, cultural, educational, economical etc.
Sigmund Freud: Women are more passive and less criminally capable. In The Unadjusted Girl (1923) he argued that as women have a greater capacity to love than men they suffer more when they do not receive social approval and affection. The female criminals deny the conventional rewards of and seek excitement, wealth, and luxury.
Chapman: Chapman studied the connection between labor force participation, and revealed an Increase in female criminal activity during times of economic hardship.
Chesney-Lind: Women are motivated to commit crime as a rational response to poverty and economic insecurity.
Cohen: The faults of women are less tolerated. The education women receive in the society is more repressive than that received by men. The social and cultural suppression resulted criminality in many cases.
Guttentag and Secord: In the societies where female population is higher in number, marriage age is low and fertility rate is high, while the education opportunities for women are extremely limited in that case percentage of criminality is higher.
Lombroso: Women participate in criminal behavior due to some physical incompatibilities. Lombroso argues that criminality is principally the product of inconsistent and altered thought of women, related to their indirect role in domestic affairs
