Marian Duggan

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Europol-The Campaign includes the refugees " faces in a variety of dramatic masks

The EU-crime Agency Europol has launched a campaign, shows its "most wanted" - women accused or convicted of serious and organised crime.

On a special website, the pictures of the refugees are covered with masks, which fall away to reveal their identities.

Europol said it wanted to underline that women are just as capable as men, the implementation of serious crimes.

Although women are offenders of serious crimes, statistics show that the majority in the world are committed by men.

A recent study On Women in crime, stresses in the order of The British government and published this year, also, that the most criminal roles - including leadership positions in organized crime groups are dominated by men.

What is campaign is in the Europol?

of the 21 refugees on The Site presented to 18 women and three men. Each person's gender is deliberately ambiguous, until the is removed your mask.

Under the criminal Elena Puzyrevich, the deported, nine young Russian Women in Cáceres in Spain and forced them into sex work.

Another, Angelina Sacjuka, wanted for beating a young woman to death in Riga, Latvia, five years ago.

Every criminal is covered in The Campaign , in a neon mask. The path then drops down to show your name and face

Claire Georges, a spokeswoman for Europol said The Campaign was an extension of an existing website, the EU-the Most Wanted, launched in the year 2016. She Said to increase The Agency of their chances, the fleeting, the in the featured campaign.

"We wanted to show that women simply commit more violent crimes than men. Although the discourse is often thought of as "male refugees', women can be just as bad," She Said .

She Said The Agency asked the EU member States to send their most wanted female fugitives. Three countries - the UK, Cyprus and Luxembourg - sent men instead.

women Are more responsible for serious crimes, than we think?

Dr. Marian Duggan , an expert in gender and criminology at the University of Kent, told the BBC that Europol was right, that it is casting a stereotype that men commit more than women serious and organised crime. But the stereotype exists because it was true, She Said .

"of Course, not all crimes can be committed by anyone, of any gender," Dr. Duggan said. "But while some women commit serious crimes, they do so far less often than men. "

Dr. Duggan gender said-stereotypes were often exploited by organized criminal groups in the implementation of large-scale crimes. Many of The Women who were indicted in the Europol campaign, for example, or convicted of sex-and drug - rolls, in which Dr. Duggan said women "can prove to be very useful," criminal bosses, But where they were very rarely alone.

"For Human Trafficking , there is a false sense of security with women, so that they can be used to gain The Trust of, or the compliance of the victims," She Said . "With drugs, we tend to see women as decoys-used, or to facilitate The Movement of drugs - But not very high or powerful roles. "

these crimes are the same listed-setting to those of the male refugees, Europol, many of which are for murder was looking for was "disingenuous," Dr. Duggan said.

"I would not see it as fair," She Said . "I think (The Campaign ) will probably be very Popular . But I don't think that there is a shift in The Narrative of "women are just as criminal as men", because I think Most People don't know it to be true. "

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Source of news: bbc.com