What Types of Crimes Do Female Convicts Commit? Comparing Trends of Female Killers to Male Killers

Someone asked over Quora.com the following question, “What types of crimes do female convicts commit?” Of course, someone responded with “the majority of crimes committed by females are for drug-related offenses (e.g, possession, distribution, trafficking, etc.) tied to the women’s addiction.

I cannot speak for the majority of all types of crimes committed by female prisoners. However, according to the journal, Violence and Gender, “Gender Differences in Patterns and Trends in U.S. Homicide, 1976 to 2015,” the following are quotes from the article:

According to the journal article, “Women are always and everywhere less likely than men to commit criminal acts, a phenomenon most evident in the extreme case of murder.”

“…. homicide research remains largely male-centric, with patterns unique to female offenders and victims often lost in the aggregate. Although males constitute the overwhelming majority of both homicide offenders and victims, it is important nonetheless to identify gender differences and similarities in trends and patterns of homicide.”

“For women to kill, they generally must see their situation as life-threatening, as affecting the physical or emotional well-being of themselves or their children. Overall, it is often noted that males and females tend to see the utility of violence in radically different ways. Whereas men tend to employ violence as an offensive move to establish superiority, women typically view violence as a defense of last resort.”

“Unless the murders of women are examined separately from the murders of men, that is, disaggregated by gender, little can be known about this type of murder which is otherwise lost within the larger number of male-to-male homicides.”

My personal opinion and information that did not come from the above-mentioned article are derived from murder research when women kill their children. When it comes to aggressive violence perpetrated by females, women tend to be more passive-aggressive. Women are caregivers, and may already be well versed in establishing felt security in others. They are guardians for the well-being of their husbands and children. Already groomed for second class status, it is this very status that supports their necessity to, not only utilize the best modes of behavior but find the best avenues that will foster their success. Sometimes women’s best avenues are perceived antisocial ones which including murder. It is for this reason women make excellent female intelligence operatives. Where men use brute force, women look for subtle angles and avenues that don’t require physical violence. In this sense, women tend to subvert their overt aggression towards more passive-aggressive methods.

Additionally, when women kill, their murdering methods deviate from the brute force typically used by males; physical contact battery (physically striking victims) and ballistic and sharp weapons (guns and knives). When women do kill, they tend to murder by smothering, drowning, suffocating, poisoning, or strangling their victims. In this sense, the very method of gang stalking with electronic targeted physical violence (EAs), and psychotronic torture tend to be “passive-aggressive” methods to commit violent assaults. Women tend to plan their murders out carefully and beguile and charm their victims. Another interesting fact is that when women kill, they kill for love or gain and typically target the people they know. It would be logical to presuppose that such violence as the phenomenon of gang stalking with electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture is derivative of a woman and that a woman would more likely be the perpetrator of such targeting. Since the phenomenon of gang stalking with electronic targeted physical assault and psychotronic torture is poorly understood by mainstream researchers, we simply do not have the aggregate data and evidence to support the theory that “feminine masculinities” are the cause of this type of targeted violence, except in probably a few cases. The cause of females targeting other subjects as a form of “feminine masculinities” can also be attributed to women’s high executive functioning, higher IQ, and detailed planning of the crime. This places the perpetrators of gang stalking with electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture in a particular category of criminal; the high executive functioning serial killers.

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