Annotated Bibliography On Gender And Crime

Report on Gender and Crime
The author took into account the differing patterns of crimes in the context of gender and considered empirical studies in this regard. The author began by explaining that there are two ways of recording statistics about crime. One is to take into account the government statistics which are by no means conclusive. Second is to conduct the statistical analysis of victims as per the category of crimes that took place against them. He observed that the latter has recorded the crime rate four times higher than the one recorded by the governmental reports. The difference arises because the government records the statistics as per offenders whereas the victims statistics identify the victims of the crimes.
As per the Criminal Statistics of
For example, 7% of women were victims of intimate violence as compared to 5% of men but on the other hand only 2% of the victims of violent crimes other than the sex offences were women and 4% were men. However, for violence against person, 34% of women were arrested as compared to 31% of men. However, men were likely to be sentenced to custody immediately i.e. 10% as compared to women i.e. 3%. The report also stipulates that women comprise only the 5% of the total prison population. (Guardian, 2012)
Similarly, a recent report by UNDOC (2013) highlighted that 78.7% of the homicide victims comprise men worldwide and only in few countries (namely: Japan, Iceland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Latvia and Tonga) the victims were more women than men. UNDOC (2013)
Hines & Kimberly (2006) observed that women are also likely to be less aggressive in committing offence as compared to men. They observed that women mostly express verbal abuse and aggression as compared to men who are likely to express it with their