Women commit crime too - shock revelations

It must be a signal of my decadent, pinko, liberal, moral relativism but I really can't get too worked up about stories like this.

Or rather, I think any increase in violent crime is a bad thing, no matter who's doing it, and the fact that women/girls are involved is surely much less important than the acts of violence themselves. Is a mugging or stabbing worse if it's perpetrated by a women? I can't see that it is.

There always seems to be a kind of submerged sexism in stories like this - almost as if women not conforming to meek and law-abiding gender stereotypes is somehow more disturbing than the crimes they are committing. Or perhaps female criminality is a particular potent example of the 'world gone mad' narrative which permeates much discussion about crime and policing. "Teenage girl muggers? Whatever next! We're all going to hell in a handcart" etc etc.