Some social-economic determinants of feminine criminality (criminology analysis on federal and regional level material)

The study of the reasons of criminality is one of the central in criminology. Under determinants of feminine criminality they understand three phenomena: direct reasons, conditions for such reasons and factors causing criminality. The differences between these determinants (the reasons, the conditions and the factors) are commonly established. In real circumstances they are not separated from each other but exist in close-fitting relationships, becoming a single criminologist situation. The determinants of the feminine criminality are researched on three levels: common social (at the level of the whole society), social-psychological (at the level of small social groups) and psychological (the interaction of criminal's personality with a concrete life situation). The common social determinants of feminine criminality are connected with social phenomena and process, reflecting the life of the whole society, or macro groups (age, nationality, etc.). Special importance among them belongs to the determinants which operate in a socio-economic sphere. The crisis state of the economy is a powerful source of criminal tension in a society. The decreasing level of people's lives, intensification of contradictions, social conflicts promote the growth of criminality. The determinants of feminine criminality of the common social level are predetermined by the conditions of life in the country and its regions. It is possible to select the main socio-economic determinants of the feminine criminality operating on the common social level. The unemployment, overtaking growth of the expenses due to inflation, lack of job places for the youth, nature of the work performed and work conditions, social and economic inequality of different population groups, gender's inequality revealed in employment, job titles and wages, growth in alcohol and drug consumption, as well as the low level of social warranties in the area of families, parenthood and the childhood, migration and urbanization are among them. The investigation of the specified determinants allows revealing certain specific aspects of their influence on feminine criminality

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