FEMALE CRIMINALITY: CURRENT TRENDS

Author(s): Geranin V.V., Maltseva S.N.

Rubric: Relevant aspects of criminal law, criminal proceedings and criminalistics

DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2024-4-65-71

Release: 2024-4 (44)

Pages: 65-71

Keywords: Female criminality, gender, masculinization of women, female violent crime, classification of crimes, general and strict regime correctional colonies for women, serious crimes, execution of punishment

Annotation: Over the past more than 10 years, there has been an annual decrease in the number of convicts serving sentences of imprisonment. Moreover, a decrease is observed in all categories of convicts, regardless of their gender and age. This is undoubtedly a positive trend, given the rather modest possibilities of correctional institutions for the correction of persons held in them. However, with a general decline in the number, criminal statistics indicate a continuing trend of an increase in the share of female crime both in the total volume of recorded crimes and in the number of convicts serving imprisonment. The authors of the article, among the social reasons for this negative phenomenon, pay attention to such a growing social and gender-psychological phenomenon as female masculinity, which increasingly affects the choice of violence by the weaker sex as a way to resolve conflicts. According to the authors, the time-tested classification of women into categories depending on the severity of the committed act and the recurrence of crimes should be restored. Thus, it will be possible not only to prevent criminal infection of women serving imprisonment for the first time (70 %), but also to contribute to the realiza- tion of such a goal of punishment as the restoration of social justice at the stage of execution of punishment. In its most general form, it can be formulated as: “Different for what has been done”. In the text of the article, the Russian Federation is abbreviated as RF.

Bibliography: Geranin V.V., Maltseva S.N. FEMALE CRIMINALITY: CURRENT TRENDS // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2024. – № 4 (44). – С. 65-71. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2024-4-65-71