Women's Offending Is Increasing

In addition, Bandura (1997) concluded a social learning theory that refers to children learning aggression, violence, and other social behaviors by observing and learning the behavior of others. And it had many statistics showed that the family background does affect the opportunity of an individual commit crime, such as men are up to five times more likely to commit a sex crime than the average male if they have a brother or father who has also been convicted of a serious sexual offence.

In the other hand, although men are the majority in all criminal acts traditionally, the statistics show that women were increasingly involved in some type of crime. But women have never been seen as a social problem because woman account for a small proportion

In recent years, due to the related news increasingly appear in popular media, women offending are getting more and more attention from readers. In fact, the statistics from Ministry of Justice Statistics bulletin showed that the rate of women conviction was increasing. In the early criminology, the explanation of women’s offending was more likely domination on some internal reason, such as the focus on the biological and psychological ground. Lombroso (1895) suggested that those women commit the crime were ‘’born criminal’’, it because of physical defects. He also suggested criminal women were atavistic, that not fully evolved and underdeveloped intelligence. In the early study on female criminality, women offending was defined as a mental illness, and were not affected by environmental issues. But the theories of feminist criminology on explaining the variation of female criminality can conduct an explanation of the rising trend of female criminality, and it considered the environmental issues. This section was quoted the theories of feminist criminology and examine the perspective that use to explain men criminality rather or not appropriate apply with

There had many studies found that the defendant’s gender was influenced the outcome of criminal court, the society may think that female are more amenable to rehabilitation and less dangerous, that may affect the probability of being jailed or imprisoned of the female. Therefore, to probe the criminal sentencing are also important in this article, because of the sentencing outcome may influence the rate of reoffending. There has five type of sentencing outcome of all court, immediate custody, suspended sentence, community sentences, fines and other disposals. According to Criminal Justice System Statistics Quarterly update to December 2012, the most common outcome for women sentenced at all court is a fine, and women were higher proportion receive fines than men, with around 78 percent in