With one of the highest murder rates in the world the island’s violent context transcends gender, age, and class, enveloping all who inhabit it. In this environment, women are not targeted because they are women; they fall victim to violence because they are part of a society engulfed in violence. As the saying goes, a rising tide raises all boats. Women occupy spaces of agency, complexity, and, at times, culpability. Yet, society’s understanding of women’s capacity for violence remains rooted in traditional gender norms, often relegating female perpetrators to the margins of analysis or explaining their actions through reductive tropes of coercion or victimisation. This chapter challenges those assumptions, arguing that to comprehend the dynamics of violent crime in Jamaica fully; we must evolve our understanding of what women are capable of—including acts of violence and crime. This chapter aims to contribute to a nuanced conversation about the interplay between gender, violence, and society in Jamaica and beyond, through a data-driven analysis.