The Role of Woman in Transnational Organized Crime

Abstract

Woman plays an important role in transnational organized crime regardless of her status and circumstances. Evidence has shown that women have been and still active as members and leaders of criminal organizations around the world and in different periods of history, casting a shadow over the prevailing notion: the “sudden rise” of the woman’s power where her activities and role have changed. After being a victim, she became a perpetrator, a member and then a leader, which provides a changing character for transnational organized crime and new criminal agents and more complex markets for woman. Consequently, governmental and non-governmental organizations

seek, in coordination with states, to dismantle them and return woman to her feminine natural nature in exchange for protecting and defending her and trying to integrate her into society.