Has the liberation of women after the feminist movement affected the deviousness and criminality of women in society and if not, what has?

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Has the liberation of women after the feminist movement affected the deviousness and criminality of women in society and if not, what has?

This essay is concerned with the liberation of women after the feminist movement and deviancy and criminality of women and specifically whether or not the liberation of women after the feminist movement has affected the deviancy and criminality of women in contemporary society. This essay is also concerned with questioning what has affected the criminality of women if the feminist movement did not.

This essay will have three objectives. The first is to define feminist and to explain the feminist movement and perspective. The second is to discuss the increase in female deviants and female criminality and the third is to offer alternative reasons for the increase in female criminality.

It is first necessary to define the term feminist. A feminist is defined in the dictionary as the theory of political, economic and social equality of the sexes and is the organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. (Merriam-Webster dictionary). The critique within feminism as an ideology involves the discrimination and injustices suffered by women in existing society. (Leech, 1996, pg 231.)