Criminal Feminism

Feminism involves the entry of women into occupations from which they were excluded.  A report on the imprisonment of women in the US provides data on convicted women that presumably reflect a rise in women pursuing criminal careers.  Plotted by our colleague Cesare Marchetti, the data fit a logistic curve beautifully and thus suggest the coherence of the feminist movement as a whole and its likeness to thousands of other biological and social growth processes.  The midpoint of the growth, which quadrupled women convicts, was 1992.  Have women hit a ceiling in their penetration of criminal occupations or will another pulse follow?  For more information on logistic growth processes, see Loglet Lab.