Traditional ideas about women who kill are that they are less violent than men, they commit murders in reaction and not by their own initiation. Murders committed by women usually occur in the home of the perpetrator; usually these residences are shared with the victim. Compared to those of women, a higher percentage of murders by men take place in bars and taverns. Women most often kill husbands, ex-husbands, and lovers, followed frequently by children and other relatives (Wolfgang, 1958; Ward et al., 1969; Wilbanks, 1982; Zimring, Mukherjee, & VanWinkle, 1983 cited by Jurik, Winn) Criminology has treated the role of women in crime with wide indifference. The intellectual tradition from which criminology draws its conception of these sexes maintains an esteem for the autonomy, intelligence and strength of character of men, while disdaining women for their weakness of obedience and passivity. Women who conform as pure and obedient daughters, wives and mothers bring benefits to men and society (Feinman, 1994: 16 cited by Kelta). Those women who do not, that is, do not conform, may simply be those who question established beliefs or practices, or those who engage in activities associated with men, or those who commit a crime. These women are doubly damned and doubly deviant (Bottoms, 1996: 1 as cited by Kelta). They are seen as “crazy” and not “bad” (Lloyd, 1995: 36 cited by Kelta). These behaviors often lead to interpretations of being mentally abnormal and unstable. Those who define, by the act itself, are never defined as "others", but are the norm. Since “men” are the norm, women are deviant. Women are defined in reference to men (Lloyd, 1995: xvii cited by Kelta). In the words of Young (1990), "sexual difference is at the center of the paper... She Was Bad, How and Why Women Get Away With Murder, Penguin Putnam, New York, (294 p., 1997). Pretorius, H ., & Botha, S. (2009). Cycle of violence and abuse in women who kill a male intimate partner: A biographical profile. South African Journal of Psychology, 39(2), 242-252. K. (2007) When Women Kill Together. Forensic Examiner, 16(1), 64. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/207642900?accountid=9715Silverman, R. A. and Kennedy L. W. (1998). who kill their children. Violence and victims, 3(2), 113. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/208569189?accountid=9715Susan Crimmins; Sandra Henry H. Brownstein; S. t. (n.d.). Convicted women who have killed children: A self-psychological perspective. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 12(1), 49. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.