Posted: Sep 14, 2014 9:32 pm
orpheus wrote:I think speculation here is largely pointless without knowing statistics divided by kind of criminal act.
I'm not so sure. I read the gender gap is widest for serious violent crime, however:
Criminologists agree that the gender gap in crime is universal: Women are always and everywhere less likely than men to commit criminal acts.
Except prostitution.
Total percentage of crimes committed by females in:
1960 - 11%
1975 - 15%
1990 - 19%
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/attachments/controversies/6741d1351433800-wiles-woman-research-statistics-represent-alternative-steffensmeier_allan.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm3DWLmRXQSJ9HPHXnO_hIpHd4DUvA&oi=scholarr&ei=jf4VVLSGLcyh7AaXyoCoBg&ved=0CCIQgAMoATAA