The topic of this final paper are women as perpetrators of criminal acts today. The aim of the work is to investigate the characteristics of women who commit crime in modern times. The understanding of female perpetrators was greatly influenced by the first theories of Lombroso and Ferrer, who believed that a female perpetrator could be recognized by her male-like appearance, and numerous others inspired by them. Today, theories started with the feminist movement have more credibility. Women in crime encourage abuse, poverty and addictions. They are often unemployed, unmarried or single mothers. All over the world, but also in Croatia, there has been an increase in female criminality, which is the result of gaining independence, greater expectations from women and numerous other factors. Women most often commit crimes against property and abuse of intoxicants. Their share in child murders cannot be ignored either, where they make up half of the killers. There is a lack of professional prison programs in the world that target the needs of offenders and educate them, therefore the percentage of recidivism is high. Women experience stigmatization in most areas of life, and this is also the case in crime. As for Croatia, its statistics do not differ greatly from the rest of Europe.