“…Although the research on psychopathy has been mainly conducted among male samples, evidence supports the psychopathy construct in female offender populations even if its behavioral manifestations are different from men (Rogers et al, 2007;Vaughn et al, 2008;Verona & Vitale, 2019). Psychopathy in women is less prevalent than in men (Beryl et al, 2014;Pinheiro et al, 2019) and psychopathic women's recidivism rate has been found to be lower than the recidivism rate among psychopathic men (Salekin et al, 1998). Studies suggest that manipulative women tend to flirt more often, while men tend to commit fraud (Forouzan & Cooke, 2005), tend to exhibit criminal behavior based on theft and fraud, whereas men generally engage in violence (Harris et al, 2007).…”