Yet prison workers know that women's crime has its own dynamics, that while all crime has its origins in the same factors, social ones, the circumstances in which it is committed and the attitudes of men and women to it do differ. Women pay a heavy price for what they've done and they do not commit severe crimes twice. Whereas men's sense of guilt gets blunted by the end of their prison terms, for women it is the reverse. And finally, I should say that women more often die when emprisoned. Overall, the most common widespread crime in Ukraine is theft, which is more than one third of crimes, and this is true for the other countries in the Confederation.
Women sometimes commit especially cruel and clever crimes.
One viewpoint, and it is held by the well known criminologist, Mikhail Vnukov, is that women's physical weakness encourages this tendency to seek special methods and devices for commiting crime. This has to do with the female organism being more vulnerable to chemicals. In our country you don't go to prison for taking drugs but for the accompanying crimes. Often women steal to support their daily and ever growing drug dose. In general, one can say they steal to get drugs and alcohol and not to get things needed for basic normal life.