Attitude of Female Criminals towards Crime in Relation to their Personality Traits

The purpose of the present study was to measure the attitude towards crime and the personality traits of female criminals. It was also the aim to know the relationship between attitude towards crime and personality traits of the female prisoners. The hypothesis was there would be no relationship between attitude towards crime and personality traits of the female prisons. For it, 200 female prisons from Patiala and Ludhiana women jails were administered two inventories, i.e.; Attitude Scale towards Crime (Self standardized) and Neuroticism and Introversion-Extraversion Inventory by I.S. Muhar, Prabha Bhatia and Geeta Kapoor. The results of the study show that: (i) most of the female prisoners have the tendency towards crime; as they have the positive attitude towards crime, (ii) majority of the female prisoners were found to be neurotic (N = 150) and most of them were extroverted (N = 186), (iii) there was a significant relationship between attitude towards crime and neuroticism; but not with introversion-extroversion trait of personality of the female prisoners.