MOTIVATIONS OF WOMEN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTS. CASE STUDY: CRAIOVA PENITENTIARY
MOTIVATIONS OF WOMEN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTS. CASE STUDY: CRAIOVA PENITENTIARY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to identify the motivations of women who are sentenced to prison for committing criminal acts. The qualitative sociological research was conducted by applying 20 semi-structured interviews on a batch of women in the custody of Maximum Security Penitentiary in Craiova. The most important achievements related to our objectives and assumptions consist of revealing causal relationships between victim-author relationship, family background of the persons included in the batch and the criminal act committed. We note that a number of factors such as violence within the family, criminal records of the family or subjects, their low level of education can influence the criminal behavior of women. Our conclusion is that we are facing some factors that often manifest in common directions to both women and men but it is important to keep in mind that in terms of female delinquency, violence within the family is a primary factor. In this respect we consider it is important for researchers from Romania interested in female delinquency to focus their analysis on the family past and victimization situations in which these women were. The development of specialized literature in our country is the most important measure in trying to shape coherent strategies of intervention on female delinquency. Further on measures are needed to prevent and reduce forms of violence within the family directed against women because our research and other specialized studies highlight this social problem as a primary determinant of violent crime.

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