When She Was Bad re-examines prevailing assumptions about women's capacity for violence and the ways society explains or downplays those acts. Mixing investigative narrative with scholarly findings, the book explores shifting crime trends and the explanations—medical, psychological, and cultural—that are often used to recast perpetrators as victims.

Detailed case studies, including Karla Homolka, Dorothea Puente and figures like Marti Salas-Tarin, are set alongside research from criminology, anthropology and psychiatry to separate stereotype from evidence.

Recommended for readers interested in true crime, gender studies, and criminal justice, the book offers a rigorous look at accountability, victimhood narratives and the social consequences of dismissing female violence.

• Focus: female offenders and societal explanations
• Method: case histories + social science research
• Themes: crime trends, accountability, cultural narratives

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