Abstract :
Criminal activities are usually attributed to men, whereas women are often considered victims, and there are fewer women in prisons and who violate the law, especially in the Arab region. This issue of Al-Raida explores women as perpetrators of crime. However, it seems that female criminality cannot be explored without first understanding female victimization. Throughout the Arab region, the crimes women commit are different – less serious, less professional, and less likely to be repeated – than the crimes committed by men, and from the crimes committed by women in the West. However, female participation in criminal behavior is increasing in Egypt, Lebanon, and some Gulf countries and some patterns of male and female criminality appear to be converging especially in corporate and white-collar crime.
