Contents Preface 1 Women some basic facts 2 Women development 3 Equal opportunity legislation 4 Women and Islam 5 Introduction to crime 6 Criminalization 7 Sociology of gender and crime 8 Justice and law 9 Crime against peace 10 Corporate crime 11 Criminal defenses 12 Fear of crime 13 Crime statistics in different countries Index The empowering of women in necessary sustainable development of a community Sustainability implies a state of balance and equilibrium in factors related to human life which can be social political financial environmental and even spiritual It is a state to which all those factors that influence the process of the growth of human being and her his holistic environment has to advance in unison but independently yet supporting each other In the case of a woman equality social justice and freedom have dynamic roles to achieve such sustainability 264 pp.