This article examines the relationship between women’s life events and their criminal activities. According to the Feminist life-course theory, women’s path to crime is largely determined by their life-long experience as females. Family environments such as discriminatory socialization based on gender, psychological, physical and sexual abuse and victimization, absence of father figure in their childhood tended to lead them to contact with illegal activities such as smoking, immature sexual encounter and drop-out of school. In turn this life experience in their adolescence make them have early pregnancy, economic difficulties, intimate partner violence. Many women with these experience then tend to escape from reality to alcohol and drug. These difficulties and misfortune become the key factors in understanding criminal activities in their adulthood. With this theoretical perspective in mind. we conducted deep interview technique to 23 Korean female prisoners who have various life-events and criminal histories to reveal the unique life experience of criminal women and its explanatory power. At last, the limitations and implications of this study will be followed.