Future Research on Women and Crime

Abstract

In the last few decades criminologists and crime historians have made important steps in the understanding of women and crime in the past. First, scholars have gathered data on women’s contribution to crime in various parts in Europe and during different time periods. Such examinations revealed that women’s involvement in crime was in various parts in Europe much higher in the period before ca. 1900 than in the modern period. There were also significant differences between towns and the count...