The criminal justice system's role in women's crime

The role of women in society has progressively changed, breaking the model imposed until then, a model in which women's only roles were reproduction and submission to men. Female criminality has been progressively on the rise and despite the developments that this topic has had in the Portuguese context, there is a lack of studies that focus on how women are perceived and treated by the justice system. Therefore, this research sought to clarify which factors are taken into account by judicial actors when judging crimes committed by women, analysing more specifically the possible influence of socially established gender roles in relation to the female figure.