[Women, crime and mental disorders in the province of Buenos Aires].

A clinical research was carried out in order to typify the main characteristics of female delinquency within the frame of reference of mental patients from the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The material was collected at the Prison Service of the said Province by their Forensic Psychiatry Laboratory. The experience covered a 20-year period. So that the reader be given basic references some previous considerations deal with female delinquency in general, and delinquency among female mental patients as well. The research was split into two courses of action: The first one was a comparative analysis between male and female offenders ranking among mental patients. The second one aimed at plotting out the principal features to be found among insane female offenders if compared to non-insane female offenders. The following parameters were taken into account: number of patients, type of offense, age, education, maternity, and relapse.