Has there been any specific laws relating to crime committed by females?
I’m guessing that there are probably new legal defenses available to women like Francine Hughes in the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/31/books/… who killed her husband after years of domestic violence. In the past, huge numbers were imprisoned in Ireland for drunkenness – for example, one third of the 1,000 women imprisoned in 1930 – and huge numbers were imprisoned for simple larceny. Soliciting, assault and malicious injury to property were the next most notable offences for which women were committed to prison. No more than three or four women have been committed to prison for murder or manslaughter in any year since 1930. Drug-related offences – the possession, production, cultivation, import, export, or sale and supply of drugs – only feature in the recorded offences from 1985 onwards.
