This work focuses on the first surge of women’s involvement in criminality in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s, against the backdrop of the so-called ‘home-grown’structural adjustment induced by the military dictatorship ruling the country at the time. The study thus makes the case that crime perpetrated by women tends to be rooted in protracted socio- economic crises and bad governance. In particular, the author considers: the treatment and punishment of women criminals and attitudes of prison officials to women prisoners and detainees, and the psychological and sociological aspects of female criminality.

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