RexRed wrote:Lifetime likelihood of going to State or Federal prison
If recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 of every 15 persons (6.6%) will serve time in a prison during their lifetime.
Lifetime chances of a person going to prison are higher for
-- men (11.3%) than for women (1.8%)
-- blacks (18.6%) and Hispanics (10%) than for whites (3.4%)
Based on current rates of first incarceration, an estimated 32% of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their lifetime, compared to 17% of Hispanic males and 5.9% of white males.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm
Yeah...that's irrelevant for the argument, though.
Wome still generally commit less criome (though we are slowly catching up in the west). You have to look for relative incarceration rates....for the SAME crime....for men and women.
The study I cited a way back was from the eighties, and we looked for the research because, working in corrections, we had developed a strong feeling that women were receiving nastier sentences for persistent or "male type" (like robbery, armed robbery, assault etc) crimes.
It is interesting, the thing that spurred us, finally, to look for real data was driving back to the office after a day in court with a couple of males from my office.
During the day, we had been in various courts for various reports we had written.
Between us, we had 16 reports. 15 were for violent crimes committed by males. Of those, we had one serial rapist, who used weapons and implements in his rapes; two were for guys who had abused little kids sexually; one fella had raped a mum and then her 12 year old daughter, forcing each to witness the rape of the other; one had murdered his wife. The others were more routine assaults and such.
One case involved a woman who had viciously assaulted another woman.
On the way home, the guys went on and on about how disgusting and horrible the woman was (not that she was a nice gal, at great length, then launched into how disgusting women are when they are nasty, much more horrible than men.
My female colleague and I were gobsmacked at firts...that none of the male violence received so much as a comment, and the one woman ended up pretty much condemning all women by the time we fouind our tongues and pointed out the problem with their view.
This led to a general discussion of gender and crime, and led to us looking up the research.
I am way out of date on that stuff now...I do not see a lot of court stuff.
But the attitudes were damned interesting.
IT may not obtain any more......though I CAN say that women sexually abusing male students are getting far more punishment by way of publicity than males.
If you looked at my local rag, for example, you would draw the conclusion that only female teachers did it, since I have not seen a case of a male publicised for more than a year, and I KNOW a number og males have been done for it.
I don't see the contradiction there.
