This work highlights the relationship between various social and cultural factors and the criminal behavior associated with criminality behavior associated with criminality. It tries to analyse the nature and pattern of women’s crime and to identify the various causes in the social and environmental surroundings the various situations to which criminal behavior responds. The study examines the attitude of women criminals towards the prison system, prison staff and prison culture. It also probes into the area of family environment, correctional institutional environment, life style, temperament of the criminals, guilt feelings, moral values and cause of crime. The present work may be the first attempt to study the life style of women criminals done on the prison population particularly on the female criminals of India from a social work perspective.