Australia: Violence against women we say no — except from another woman

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'When it comes to violence against women, “Australia Says No”. But what happens when women are the ones committing these crimes against other women?

Tuesday night’s armed assault against a 35-year-old woman at Glenroy Railway Station in Melbourne by two young females highlights the rapid growth of crimes in Australia committed by women against women.

This incident occurred only months after a woman pleaded guilty to charges around encouraging her daughter and three friends to violently attack a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl at St Albans and posted footage of the violence on YouTube. Other female crimes committed against women during the preceding year include the alleged murder of a legally blind 65-year-old woman by 25-year-old Amber Cooper in Bairnsdale.

A survey conducted by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in 2008 showed the number of girls aged 10-17 allegedly involved in criminal offenses soared from 3622 in 1998 to 5724 that year. The figures have caused speculation over why more young women are becoming violent, particularly against other women.

Professor Kerry Carrington, head of the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, wrote in her recently released book Offending Youth, Sex and Crime that cyber bullying accounted for the alarming increase in female youth violence. Professor Carrington draws her observations from more than 45 years of adolescent crime statistics, which suggest that young female delinquency is on the rise.'