The Liberal Democrat's (The party of Lynne Featherstone Equalities Minister), want female criminals to go unpunished.

The Liberal Democrat party, currently in coalition with The Conservative party:

'Calls on the government to act further to achieve its objectves by:

[2c] 'Issuing guidance to prosecutors and judges to prevent women suffering from domestic violence, who have retracted their evidence against their partner because of fear and intimidation, from being prosecuted for false allegations.'

and

[2d] 'Enabling vulnerable families to stay together by implementing the Corston recommendatons, which would see a gradual closure of all women's prisons and their replacement with some small custodial units for serious and dangerous offenders, and, for most women offenders, a larger network of support and supervision centres in the community.'

http://www.libdems.org.uk/siteFiles/resources/docs/conference/F26%20Tackling%20Violence%20Against%20Women.pdf