There no doubt that in atl so ieties, respo fo crimes, particu!arly serious ones. is srificantly affected by the gender of the defendants or sometimes the gender of the victims within societies, tomate gender cxpectations and gender rotes are different from those of males There are some kinds of crimes that can be expected to be committed by women, but there are others that are not On the one hand, there is no gender role corresponding to The former kinds of crimes, or at least it is not clear on the other hand, if a woman commits a crime that society does not expect her to commit, such as killins her children, she will imvarably be treated harshly by that society. Society's expectations depend on the culture and tradition more than the law since regulations, in generat, make no difference in dealing with crime on the busis of sender in practice the situation may be different Even today in some societies, women are per cewed as senua obects and are expected to remain within male dommated ideologies such as homemaker ond nurturer. subord men in societies such as Pakistan, women are considered to be the rate to property of men, and domestic volence may be understood as the right of men over the women with whom they live. In fact, violence agains females by their mate relatives s something that may be accepted by the society and the famly if she has been considered