Findings reveal differences in the way men and women (1) view the event as traumatic or scary, (2) compare their experience to other life experiences, (3) believe the crime changed their lives, and (4) view the probability that they would eventually experience a violent crime. Differences ...
Rates are the number of reported offenses per 100,000 of the population.In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR ...
Differences by gender - Among youth ages 12 to 14, males had a higher rate of violent crime victimization than their female peers in 2014–2016. Differences were particularly stark for rates of simple assault - Among youth ages 15 to 17, males again had a higher rate of violent crime victi...
This research examined two aspects of gender effects in eyewitness accounts: whether there are gender differences in memory for a violent crime and how gender of perpetrator/victim affect witnesses' evaluations of perpetrator/victim behavior. Eighty male and 84 female university students saw a film sh...
Research consistently demonstrates that females engage in less criminal behavior than males across the life course, but research on the variability of the gender gap across contexts is sparse. To address this issue, we examine the gender gap in self-reported violent crime among adolescents across ne...
The declining violent crime rates come after a spike in violent crime during theCOVID-19 pandemic. Violent crime alsowaned in 2022, falling by 1.7%. Overall, more than 1.2 million violent crimes were committed in 2023, the report estimated. ...
Although the female offender topic is too wide to review all crime typologies (child physical abuse is not included, for example) the review indicates that: there are legal and police biases in the treatment of women offenders; women can commit the same IPV and share the motivations of male ...
The death of women as a result of violent crime has become a major social and health problem worldwide. Most of these crimes are committed by their partners. The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have amplified the problem, given that measures to contain the spread of the disease have exposed wom...
Introduction It has been well documented that individuals of Maori descent and/or cultural identification are at higher risk of a range of disadvantageous outcomes including poorer educational achievement, higher rates of poverty and housing difficulties, higher risks of health problems, greater ...
Regardless of violent crime type, black and Hispanic females exhibited high rates of offending relative to white females. Furthermore, the violent offending rates of black females paralleled those of white males. These findings suggest that an examination of gender differences in violent offending, ...