WOMEN'S CRIMINAL CAREER AND CRIMINAL LIFESTYLE

Sažetak Istraživanja kriminaliteta žena, jos uvijek su snažno podzastupljena. To vrijedi i za dva vrlo vrijedna koncepta koji, svaki na svoj nacin, stvaraju red u raznovrsnim interdisciplinarnim pristupima i tako dobivenim empirijskim podacima o kriminalitetu: koncept kriminalne karijere i teoriju kriminalnog životnog stila. Svrha rada je dati kratak pregled istraživacki najzastupljenijih i najpodzastupljenijih sub-domena svakog od dva navedena koncepta i njihova kombiniranja na podrucju kriminaliteta žena, te dati argumente zbog kojih je potrebno (1) istraživati kriminalitet na ženskim uzorcima i popunjavati praznine u saznajima iz pojednih sub-domena obaju koncepata (2) provoditi istraživanja na istim instrumentima na spolno mjesovitim uzorcima i (3) na temelju dobivenih razlika razvijati instrumente prilagođene ženskim uzorcima. Kljucne rijeci: kriminalitet žena, kriminalna karijera, kriminalni životni stil. Summary Research of crime committed by women are still strongly under-represented. This also applies to two very valuable concepts: the concept of criminal career and theory of criminal lifestyle. Every concept in its own way systematizes a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and thus obtained empirical data on crime. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview of research in the most represented and the most under-represented sub-domains of each of the two concepts and their combination in the field of women's crime, and to argue why it is necessary to (1) research the crime in female samples and fill in the gaps in the knowledge of specific sub-domains of both concepts (2) conduct research using the same instruments on gender mixed samples and (3) develop instruments tailored for female samples, based on the obtained differences. Keywords: women's crime, criminal career, criminal lifestyle