Why do women fall in love with criminals?

“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.(Young, Loretta) is a saying or quote that most people advice their companions who search for their the one in life, but what if the person who you have found is what most people consider a criminal?

In Germany, authorities were investigating a murder during a conjugal visit at a prison and the woman who was beaten and stabbed to death knew how violent her boyfriend could be. So what attracted her to him? The suspect has served 19 years of a life sentence for raping and killing a child. So he worked in the library in the prison in the western German town of Remscheid and had been due for a parole hearing the next month.
The chief executive of the prison, Katja Grafner, said his girlfriend had been allowed intimate visits with the prisoner in a secluded apartment inside the jail since 2006. But after unlocking the apartment on Sunday afternoon, wardens found the prisoner's girlfriend stabbed to death with knives and a device used to bind books. The convict had attempted suicide and was found with one of his wrists slashed.
The convicted rapist and murderer of the woman, a single mother, had been a couple for five years.
Women falling in love with convicts are not a rare phenomenon because it is all about control and power, according to German psychologist and media expert Christian Luedke. "Women who fall in love with dangerous criminals are more often than not suffering from depression," Luedke told Deutsche Welle. Christian said that for some women, it was easier to have a relationship with a dangerous criminal than to deal with their own fate. Psychologist Luedke says such relationships are doomed to failure
"It's the fascination with the heinous side of human nature," Luedke said. Often, they are full or anger and aggression themselves. They fall in love with men who symbolize what the women themselves can't act on. To a certain extent, these women believe they can turn the criminal into a better human being, but in the end "it is the women who need the relationship, they are giving the convict what they themselves have lacked most in life: time, affection, love and devotion," according to Luedke.
He also noted that such relationships tend only work for as long as the partner is in jail. "As soon as he is out, the relationship faces the same problems the women had before, making a break-up inevitable." This, of course, is assuming that the relationship makes it that far.
Such conjugal visits in some jails are unsupervised because they are meant to help prisoners preserve intimate bonds with loved ones on the outside. But prisoners are supposed to be searched before entering the secluded apartment.


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