They fall into two age groups. Their main trait is adaptability. They want to look and think like everyone else. The other age group consists of women over 50. As a rule they worked in the clothing markets where lots of people congregate.
All thieves have a heightened sense of alarm and a well developed memory.
There was one girl here who specialized in theft from automat storage boxes. Four years after her trial, she related some twenty episodes, remembering the numbers of the boxes, what was inside them and where she had stashed away the stolen things. Women thieves are very influenced by the criminal subculture and the example of relatives who steal. They are people of temperament. Women addicts are incredibly demonstrative.