Se realiza en primer lugar una breve revisión de algunas de las variables utilizadas en la literatura para diferenciar a los sujetos delincuentes de los no delincuentes, prestando especial atención a aquellas que se han empleado en el estudio de la mujer delincuente; se concluye en la introducción de este artículo que la mayoría de los autores encuentran diferencias significativas a nivel psicológico entre ambas poblaciones. Se planea a continuación un estudio en el que se trata de demostrar la falsedad de tal afirmación, debido a la gran disparidad de los sujetos empleados en otros estudios (muestras de control no sólo no delincuente, sino de distinta clase social, nivel cultural, edad, etc.). Controladas dichas variables, se realiza una comparación de mujeres delincuentes y no delincuentes en las variables siguientes: inteligencia cuantitativa, sinceridad, neuroticismo, extraversión y “locus of control”, encontrándose apoyo para la hipótesis inicial (no hubo diferencias significativas entre ambos grupos), menos en la variable inteligencia cualitativa, resultado explicable por el hecho de que la muestra de mujeres delincuentes estaba en prisión.
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