Female Crime in the State of Jalisco

an Approach Based on Statistics

Abstract

Female delinquency is a phenomenon that has been historically relegated and ignored, considering that the female crime incidence is below male crime rates; and on the other side in the collective imagination, women are not considered criminals, but on the contrary, women’s role is that of “protectors, mothers, daughters, sisters, they cannot be violent or commit crimes”. In the present exploratory-descriptive work the purpose was established to give visibility to the phenomenon of female delinquency at the national level and in particular in the State of Jalisco, as well as to show through statistics what types of crime they commit and if these are severe. All of this with the purpose of relating if women commit crimes that were usually attributed to men or not. To this end, statistics of the National Institute of Geography and Information (inegi) were consulted on issues of public security and justice, and on the other hand requests for information were made via the transparency platform, through which the data were also obtained. It was found that women have historically committed crimes; in addition, at present, the types of crimes they commit are often considered highimpact crimes and related to organized crime. In 2015, in Mexico, the percentages of severe crimes committed by women were between 10 to 17%, consisting of human trafficking, kidnapping, responsibility of public servants, drug dealers, among others; in general, in Jalisco they are sentenced in greater proportion for the crime of theft or against health