Kvinnlig brottslighet under andra världskriget : En jämförande studie om kvinnors brottslighet i Lunds rådhusrätt och Kristianstads rådhusrätt.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of crimes committed by women and how it developed in the two swedish cities, Lund and Kristianstad, during the second world war. The years studied are 1940, 1942 and 1944. Another purpose with this paper is to investigate women’s crime patterns in the city. Women’s crime in Lund and Kristianstad is studied comparatively. Quantitative method and source material in the form of court journals are used. The result of this paper is that the development of crime differed between the cities of Lund and Kristianstad. The total female crime in Lund neither increased nor decreased, while the female crime in Kristianstad increased. The female crime also turned out to be higher in Kristianstad than in Lund. The most common crime among women was mainly traffic violations in both cities. Theft was also a common crime in the cities. Violent crimes and illegal alcohol handling were not common among the female criminals. The female criminal was usually a young Swedish woman under the age of 30; a housewife, unmarried or working as a maid.