The social reaction to the violent behavior of women was observed through informal ways, i.e. stigmatization and media representation of women offenders and through response of criminal justice system as a form of formal social reaction. To explain the criminality of women, the one is observed through theory of anomie, differential asoociation and identification theory ant labeling theory. The aim of this study was to see into trends and structure of reported, accused and convicted adult women in Croatia from 2009 to 2013 and compared them with one another. Likewise, it was intended to establish the differences in the types of decisions for crimes against life and body as well as crimes against marriage, family and youth with regard to sex in Croatia within the prescribed period. Sources of data for this study are the official statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics. The research found that, with average annual fluctuations, the trend of decrease in the total number of reported, accused and convicted adult women for crimes against life and body and for crimes against marriage, family and youth. The largest number of criminal offenses covered in the subgroup ´other´ crimes, in which are recorded the highest variation in the number of reported, accused and convicted women in the observed period. Also, research has established the difference in the types of decisions for crimes against life and body and for crimes against marriage, family and youth with regard to sex, wherein the records, with average annual fluctuations, the trend of decrease in the total number of accused persons of both sexes who were found guilty, not guilty, who were acquitted, whose trial resulted in a verdict of abandonment or whose charges were dissmised during the trial. It was established a higher total number of accused men, in relation to the total number of accused woman, according to these types of decisions.