Social Marginalization and Women's Crimes

The mechanisms of cultural socialization in the traditional structure of the third world contribute to the marginalization of some social groups and to the creation of some fissures in the class structure of the society as a result of social mobility in the classes' movement up and down. Women have a great share of the marginalization because of their great share in illiteracy. Women's suffering from unemployment, poverty and social marginalization in a manner that exceeds man due to economic, political and cultural accumulations made the alternatives available for men to cope with poverty wider than women's alternatives and opportunities in the society. The severity of such suffering is augmented in the less developed and grown societies on the productive, cultural and legislative levels in the light of a value matrix and historical heritages. This matter leads to creating a social environment which facilitates women's perversion and criminal behavior as a result of poverty, social stresses and gender / class differences. This is not a justification for the crimes committed by women.

Prof. Amina Bayoumi Professor of Political Sociology and Cultural Development at Fayoum University, Egypt. My research interests: sociology of women, youth, poverty, crime, political and social movements, Social marginalization.