Challenges to Female Criminality

Abstract

The current study focuses on the global scourge of rising female criminality, which has recently become a focus of criminal policy, law, and justice in the modern world. Women's crime accounts for a small percentage of total crime, but it is growing at a considerably quicker rate than men's in most countries. Female criminality has taken on new shapes and dimensions as a result of the rapidly expanding chances for women to participate equally in all aspects of society. Because the sorts of female crime that are prominent in each country varies, a more in-depth examination of the socio-cultural milieu of female criminals is required in light of changing socio-economic conditions and their concomitants, such as modernization, industrialization, and urbanization. A criminal woman's life is like a trajectory on which her temperament, wants, drives, circumstances, provocations, temptations, maladjustments, poverty, and tremendous stress may all seem as planets in a galaxy. Because her life is already a punishment, it is pointless to further damage her. The pressing need of the hour is for her to be reformed by bettering her life. In light of the fact that female crime is as common as male crime and that female criminals do not form an isolated group from the general population, the sentencing system for male offenders has been significantly modified in our society with the help of new reformative practices and alternatives to imprisonment. The same should be applied to female offenders as well.