The Relationship Between Punishment for Crime and Gender

Before the jury becomes a defendant. There is sufficient evidence to support the prosecution. The verdict returned from the jury and was not guilty. why? The accused is a woman. In the era of equal rights and civil liberties, women have made major progress in progress and social roles, but seem to have segregated gender by crime. There are countless numbers of women and men who have been tried by the same crime, but the result does not necessarily agree with judgment and judgment.

A lot of attention has been directed to the gender difference related to the fear of crime. The scholars are aware of the special paradox about the risk of the damage and the fear of crime between men and women. Men are more likely to be victims of crime than women, but women are far more likely to commit crimes than men of general groups and university students (Fisher, 1995; Warr, 2000; Gibson et al., 2002; Jennings et al., 2007). However, women of college students, such as IPV (Gover et al., 2008, future), sexual assault (Fisher et al., 2000), follow-up (McCreedy and Dennis, 1996; Nobles et al. It is likely to be a victim of interpersonal crime. . With only a few exceptions, women are more likely to suffer from these specific crimes than men, but most previous studies have compiled a wide variety of crimes (ie property crime and personal crime ).

Although it is difficult to explain them, criminal statistics may provide a way to study this relationship from a gender perspective. Observable differences between male and female crime rates may be due to social and cultural factors, undisclosed criminal or biological factors (eg testosterone or social biology theory) . Considering the nature of the crime itself may also be a factor. Crime can be measured by data such as arrest history, retention rate, and investigation. However, not all crimes are reported or investigated. In addition, a survey indicates that males may have overwhelming prejudice against reporting that they are victims of crime (especially those wounded by women), and closer partners Men reporting violence suggest that there is a bias toward law enforcement. Burton et al. (1998) found, low level of self-control is related to criminal activity