In the last few years, the rate of female criminality is increasing in our country in an alarming rate and there is a trend towards younger age-crime and organized crime. In recent years female presence is seen in the business and transfer of different types of drugs, namely heroin, yaba, phensidyl, and marijuana etc. Their involvement has been reported in different types of offences, namely, trafficking, hijacking, smuggling, keeping counterfeit currency, carrying illegal arms, etc. According to the police record in 1971, the percentage of female criminality in Bangladesh was only 1.7 per cent, while the increased percentage of this crime is 3.5 and 3.8 in 1991 to 1992 (Police Statistics, 2010). Again, the data that is published in newspapers indicate that the percentage of female crime was only 4.27 per cent (7760) out of the total crimes (165339) occurred in 2007, which increased in 2008 at the amount of 13 per cent (59851). In one year, net increased rate of female crime is 8.73 per cent. Statistics says, year 2009 to 2014 this rate stands more than double. A research on 61 female criminals entitled ‘The nature and causes of female criminality in Bangladesh,’ shows that 36 per cent, 48 per cent and 18.2 per cent of female criminals’ age are below 25 years, between 26 to 48 years and over 46 years old. In addition to this, 42 per cent female criminals are illiterate, 77 per cent are married, and 57.4 per cent are professionally housewives. The monthly income of 595 women is between 1000 to 5000 taka and the number of their family members is more than 8 to 10 (European Academic research, vol.1, issue 4/July 2013).
