Women and Violence

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how women have generally been ignored by researchers and law enforcement officials in considering issues of crime and crime prevention and how this has created a distorted picture of the degree to which women were involved in crime. It analyzes how when it discussing family violence, women are given considerable attention as victims and little as perpetrators, even though domestic violence against men is a major societal problem.

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Introduction
Women and Violence
Further Evidence
Rates of Injury
Gender Differences
Moral Judgement
Analysis

From the Paper:

"Husband battering has largely been ignored in the literature for several reasons, one of which is this view that women are simply not as violent as men. Another reason is that husband battering was thought to be a fairly rare occurrence, and police reports seemed to bear this out by showing in some cases a ratio of 12 to 14.5 female victims to every one male victim. Another reason is that women are seen as weaker and more helpless than men due to sex roles, while men, on the other hand, are seen as more sturdy and self reliant. Therefore, researchers believed that a study of abused husbands was relatively unimportant. However, once research was undertaken, it showed a different picture. "

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