Statistics indicate that in South Africa, shoplifting is the only crime for which the number of women offenders outnumbers men. The first article argues that shoplifting statistics cannot be considered a valid index of female criminality and that women's biological makeup controls their social expectations, personality development, and status-role occupation. The second article presents study results from various researchers to argue that the assumption that shoplifting is mainly a female activity is related to official recordkeeping: the number of women officially recorded as having been involved in shoplifting far exceeds the number of women officially recorded as having been involved in any other type of crime. However, recent statistics in England and Wales show that equal numbers of men and women engage in shoplifting. This second paper argues that the belief that women's actions are insignificant, that women are inessential and invisible, is now being refuted by the women's movement. This movement, the outcome of economic, political, and historic changes and processes, is an expression of existing and experienced injustices and inequalities. The paper uses this feminist perspective to highlight some injustices in legal systems (i.e., female prostitution is illegal but male prostitution is not in English law). One table and references accompanying each article are provided.