... can commit the act of crime. However, the criminality of women is a deteriorated field of research, as even criminological research is influenced by the cultural stereotype, which supports the notion that women do not commit so many crimes and that men are the criminal violators of the law. Let's try to find out, if this stereotype should exist or should not and how well criminology explain its existence. Many authors have tried to explain and analyse the female criminality and most of them have accepted the results of the criminal statistics that support that the degree of women in crime is lower than the degree of male participation in crime. However, each author has given his own explanation for this matter. The most popular division that was made for the better explanation of the fewer criminal acts in the female sex was that of the biological and that of ...

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