On the etiology of Female Offending in Bangladesh: Toward a Quest for Alternative Explanation 1

Presumed changes in patterns of crime by females are drawing the attention of the popular media as well as that of sociologists and criminologists. Increases in the rate of crime by women and shifts in the nature of women's criminal involvement are commonly attributed to the emergence of the women's liberation movement. The main intent of the study is explore the etiology of female offending as well as nature and extent and socio-demographic characteristics of female criminality. This study relies on incident based newspaper report. The data has been collected from four historically famous and renowned newspapers (The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Prothom Alo, The Daily Jugantor, and The Daily Shamokal) by using checklist. The collected data has been analyzed by descriptive statistics (Percentage, proportion, average, standard deviation and cross-tabulation). From the data analysis we have seen that women commit more violent and victimless crime in contemporary Bangladesh than any other crime. Among them, many of the women participated in greater scale like murder and suicide as well as cheating/fraud, drug trafficking and illegal trespass crime. In Bangladesh, Women are engaged in property, organized and public order crime due to economic necessity for accelerating their lifestyles, whereas they commit violent and victimless crime because of having familial conflict, poverty, collision,