The Sentencing Gap – Do Women Get Lighter Prison Sentences Than Men?

robertstgeorge · 2020-01-02T08:01:22+00:00

This apparent gender bias extended beyond penalties of imprisonment – one study found that male drink drivers generally received fines which were 9.7% higher than those received by women for the same offence, and received disqualification periods which were 22.2% longer.

littlepaperfolk · 2020-01-03T08:20:47+00:00

I dont know how the laws are in Australia but in Canada males who murder their female partners rarely ever get first degree murder. Its usually second degree. Even if he had put her in hospital many times previously, even if there were many restraining orders in place forbidding him to be anywhere near her, even if he entered her home by breaking in a door and was armed with intent to kill and stabbed her several times, he will still get second degree. There was a case with a prominent Toronto neurosurgeon who murdered his wife when she had applied for a divorce. He bludgeoned her, strangled her, shoved her in a suitcase, drove her away from the home by many miles, leaving his children asleep in the home and threw the suitcase containing her corpse off a bridge, into a river. Some days later her body was found and then he called his lawyer, then called police. He was not worried about her. He didn’t want to be caught. Three months later, his parents went to court to ask that he be able to leave prison and stay with them as his surety until the trial. As if he were a little lad who stole a packet of peanuts. His lawyer said publicly that “there are two sides to every story and I guarantee that both sides of this story will be heard in court.” Wow. Like there is EVER a good enough reason to murder your partner in such a heinous way and then to lie to everyone about where she may be. This is the type of lawyer who would blame an infant for getting raped for what they were wearing. “ I can assure you that my client believed that the two were in a consensual sexual relationship.” The doctor ended up getting second degree. Then, a man who was extremely messed up, rented a van and drove down a busy sidewalk, driving into people willy nilly, throwing some of them up and off the sidewalk and killing about ten random folks because he was frustrated about something in his life. By the end of the day, he had received TEN counts of first degree murder. Wow. Did he know these people? Did he set out to murder them, personally, using their names and birthdates, etc in cold blood? No. He got in a van and drove up on the sidewalk with the idea of hurting a bunch of random strangers. Still first degree by the end of the day....

Title	The Sentencing Gap – Do Women Get Lighter Prison Sentences Than Men?
Author	robertstgeorge
Upvotes	29
Comments	4
Date	January 2, 2020 8:00 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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