Universal Crime Theories and Women

The present study attempts to locate women in the universal crime theories which seem to be developed from male subjects and validated on them too.Due to the increasing equality in status and opportunity between men and women the line between male and female crime is getting thinner.There are many universally accepted theories which apparently apply to male criminals but on lifting the veil on them and studying minutely we discover that they equally apply to female criminals too.No doubt any theory is weak if it does not apply to half of the population which experiences the same deprivations in the same environment, family structures and economic conditions.The research revolves around the twin factors, first that the theories of crime should be able to take account of both men"s and women"s behavior and to highlight those factors which operate differently on men and women and second that if a particular theory helps us to understand female crime better this would be a great achievement for criminology.The relevant matter for consideration is whether these "manmade" and "made for men" do explain female crime and if few of them or all of them do so then to what extent?