Essay On Female Crime

R&R Assignment 1 Statistics show that female crimes have increased in the last thirty years. There are many different reasons why women crimes have increased. Biological, psychological, and sociological factors all contribute to why female crime occurs. Everyday in our society we see more female crimes trending on the news, on the internet, and even on Netflix. “Orange Is The new Black” is a television series that revolves around Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties living in New York City, who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security women federal prison in upstate New York. This chapter illustrates what crimes are usually committed by women and why they commit them. Feminist criminology is a pretty new

A huge psychological factor that is very crucial to a woman’s behavior is her childhood. Physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adult hood leads to many mental health problems. Almost over 70 percent of women in state institutions have mental health problems and 68 percent had prior childhood abuse incidents. Sociology is the scientific study of social behavior, its origins, development, organization, and institutions. There are also many sociological explanations and theories to why why women demonstrate much delinquent behavior. The opportunity theory says that blocked opportunity in a society that values material success can lead to antisocial behavior. The most popular crimes in in the opportunity theory are economic crimes such as embezzlement. Females that come from the inner city and have grown up in poverty tend to start a life of crime more so than women of the middle class. Women growing up in the city are exposed to more drugs, violence, and teen pregnancies at a much younger age. Growing up around this sort of problems, women may tend to get caught up in crime. Although, women in the middle class who commit crime, usually commit more “white collar” crime, like embezzlement or