Domestic Abuse

Introduction

This essay will look at relationship between gender and violent crime. It will also look at the contributory reason why there is a significant difference in the ratio of crimes to each perspective gender and the attributor’s factors.

At least five areas of life tend not only to inhibit female crime and encourage male crime, but also to shape the patterns of female offending that do occur: gender norms, moral development and affiliative concerns, social control, physical strength and aggression, and sexuality. These five areas overlap and mutually reinforce one another and, in turn, condition gender differences in criminal opportunities, motives, and contexts of offending

. Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault. Violent crime is undertaken when one uses his aggression to create   extreme harm   to a group or individual for the purpose of personal satisfaction.
Economical factor: , economical factors that interfere with his/her lifestyle such as poverty can lead to theft.areas with high levels of poverty tended to have significantly higher levels of violent crimes.Studies have consistently shown higher rates of offending for males than for females, and especially
higher rates of violence. Gender differences in the development of social cognition may help to explain
gender differences in crime and violence. How an individual ultimately responds to a stressful life
event or risk factor depends on how that event is perceived, which, in turn, depends on an individual’s
cognitive processes. Social information-processing skills allow individuals to encode information,
interpret and consider risks and benefits of a particular action, and determine an appropriate response

Women and men both commit, and are victims of, crimes but their perspectives, understandings and interpretations of crime are very much different. Men and women also commit violence but their motivations are likely to be different;... [continues]

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