If any conclusions about women's deviant behaviour in the first decade ofthis century are to be made, we first have to accept the fact that even though the number of crimes committed by women is considerably lower than those for men, their structure of the numbers is more or less the same. Additionally, women's share in the total number of criminal offences has been decreasing continuously for the past one hundred and fifty years. It is estimated that today women's criminal offences in Slovenia represent merely 10.6 percent of all criminal offences. There have been different explanations as to why the number of women's criminal offences is lower. Some believed that women had higher morals than men; others sought religious reasons; still others believed that lower criminality rates should be ascribed to women's lower intelligence or that women are less imaginative. Today we would probably agree with those who believe that women had fewer opportunities to deviate from the "right" way.