WOMEN OFTEN MORE VIOLENT THAN MEN

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a

(full text can be found by clicking on the link above)

Men Shouldn't Be Overlooked as Victims of Partner Violence

In addressing intimate partner violence, the focus is usually on women who are physically battered by husbands or boyfriends.

However, women sometimes hurt their partners as well. Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners.

In fact, when it comes to nonreciprocal violence between intimate partners, women are more often the perpetrators. .....

Furthermore, Whitaker discovered, of the 24 percent of relationships that had been violent, half had been reciprocal and half had not. Although more men than women (53 percent versus 49 percent) had experienced nonreciprocal violent relationships, more women than men (52 percent versus 47 percent) had taken part in ones involving reciprocal violence.

Regarding perpetration of violence, more women than men (25 percent versus 11 percent) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women. This finding surprised Whitaker and his colleagues, they admitted in their study report.

As for physical injury due to intimate partner violence, it was more likely to occur when the violence was reciprocal than nonreciprocal. And while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25 percent of the time) than were women (20 percent of the time).

"This is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious," .....

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, upon which this investigation was based, was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development with co-funding from 17 other federal agencies.

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This new study shows us, how helpless women really are...

A simple summary can be found also here (link below):

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941

2007 American Public Health Association
Results:
Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases.

WOMEN - LENIENT PRISON SENTENCES

Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence because You Are a Woman?
An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

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http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp2870.html

The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission’s records, we examine whether there exists any gender-based bias in criminal sentencing decisions. We treat months in prison as a censored variable in order to account for the frequent outcome of no prison time. Additionally, we control for the self-selection of the defendant into guilty pleas through use of an endogenous switching regression model. A new decomposition methodology is employed. Our results indicate that women receive more lenient sentences even after controlling for circumstances such as the severity of the offense and past criminal history.
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We find that women receive prison sentences that average a little over 2 years less than those awarded to men. Even after controlling for circumstances such as the severity of the offense and past criminal history, women receive more lenient sentences. Approximately 9.5 months of the female advantage cannot be explained by gender differences in individual circumstances. In other words if women faced the same sentencing structure as men, women would on average receive 15.4 months less prison time than men rather than 24.9 months less prison time. Most of the gender gap arises from convictions via guilty pleas, which account for the vast majority of the convictions observed in our data. Besides gender, we find evidence that judges took into account factors such as family circumstances which are expressly prohibited from consideration when awarding sentences.
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Yes, this above is the result of this study recently published.
Although this study is more than abstract in its calculation, it is the first academic scientic research of this topic I ever have seen.

Thus study refers clearly to gender equity and can prove using mathematical analysis, that women are getting lenient sentences compared to those of men for the same crime - solely out of the fact they are women....Feminists will not welcome this research...not easy to say, what is written there is not true. No excuse...

Where are all our feminists, demanding equal treatment for men and women?
Silence...