Why do women commit less crime

Grow_peace_in_Bedlam · 2024-06-16T17:45:15+00:00

Let's put it this way: here in Mexico, narcos often recruit lower-class adolescent boys and young men who have no hope for a decent living by legitimate means.

If you're an adolescent girl or young woman in that same class, what would you rather do, get your own hands dirty in drug trafficking, or choose a partner who's already getting his hands dirty in the business and enjoy the same lifestyle but be able to play coy and innocent when the federales come to gun him down?

Because of the provider/protector role imposed on men, it's much easier for women to enjoy the proceeds of crime without doing the dirty work themselves than it is for men.

CaptSnap · 2024-06-16T18:19:42+00:00

Go post this in /r/conservative and ask why do black people commit more crime and compare the response to /r/feminism why do men commit more crime.

Crime data (taken from the same sources too) is a gold mine for bigots of every walk and feminism is certainly no stranger to it.

Why do people commit crime? heres an economist article on it This is seldom talked about. Ask conservatives (not all, but enough) or feminists (not all but most) and youll be told because the perpetrators are bad...thats oversimplifiying but youll see for yourself its not too fucking far off.

But unfortunately for the bigots there is actually an enormous correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and crime, particularly when you include poverty, unemployment, inequality, and related factors. Basically...the more fucked you are in society, the more oppressed, the more crime is your only avenue.

Conservative worldview cant admit data grounded reality shows black people are getting fucked, and feminist worldview cant admit that the damn pesky crime data (along with nearly every other metric of data gathered) show men are actually getting fucked instead of women...so neither side can talk about the real reasons behind crime... they can only wave their arms against boogeymen and bleat on about how x is bad (where x is black people or men, or black men for a double combo).

So why do men commit more crime? Because we dont care about men, we dont support men, we dont give them a leg up on employment, we dont give them a social ladder, we dont extend social programs to men, we dont have legions of offices and studies to try and help men in particular, etc. So they are fucked. And the "fucked" turn to crime.

Then to the extent women DO commit crime we do our goddamnest to undo it.

I believe this is the study you are asking for: From Initial Appearance to Sentencing: Do Female Defendants Experience Disparate Treatment?

Women were less likely to be detained before trial.

They were 46 percent less likely than men to held in jail prior to a trial.

Women who were released on bond were given lower bond amounts. Their bonds were set at amounts that were 54 percent lower than what men were required to pay.

Women were 58 percent less likely to be sentenced to prison.

Thats alot of privilege right there.

Women make up approximately 9% of the jail/prison population...this from the ACLU:

The ACLU is working to reduce the overincarceration of women and girls, ensure equal rights and dignity while in confinement, and eliminate barriers imposed as a result of having a criminal record.

Onemoretime536 · 2024-06-16T13:26:45+00:00

I think a lot is down to the fact that a lot of men feel disconnect to society, also men seem to have more metal health issue and men are most of the homeless population meaning they are less protections for men when they going through hard times meaning they turn to crime to get money.

Also men are more likely to get addicted to drugs and alcohol.

In the uk I saw a statistic saying men on average get 60% longer sentences.

no_user_ID_found · 2024-06-16T18:03:15+00:00

When a human is at their lowest point in life they have two choices. Crime or selling woo-hah. Men don’t have a woo-hah

Current_Finding_4066 · 2024-06-16T13:32:03+00:00

Women are much less likely to get indicted, until this gets corrected, you will not get data that represents actual situation.

Let's take rape as an extreme example. As women still cannot not get charged with it, comparison of such statistics yields useless and misleading conclusions

Clousder · 2024-06-16T13:57:42+00:00

My guess would be that it's mainly caused by four things:

Women are much less likely to be arrested when they commit crimes and less likely to be punished severely when they are arrested. This both makes it seem like women commit less crime than they actually do, and contributes to women actually committing less crime, as they are less likely to face the trauma of imprisonment and the barrier of a criminal record.
Criminal gangs are less likely to recruit women because of sexist norms held by gang leaders. Gangs tend to be more conservative than the societies they operate in, but (at least in Sweden, where I'm from) it seems like they are starting to change those norms or are outcompeted by new gags without them. I remember recently reading an article about a significant increase in the proportion of people convicted for gang related violence being women and girls.
Men in many cultures are encouraged to be violent to other men. This happens both directly through what boys are told by parents and other adults, and through media and the role models they may find among fictional characters.
Men are more likely to experience homelessness and addiction and have less access to support services. Being homeless and/or addicted to drugs comes with an increased risk of being in situations where they have to steal to survive or defend themselves against a threat.

LeftNotWoke · 2024-06-16T13:42:44+00:00

Imho it's a mix of a few of those. Men are taught to defend their family or even their country with violence. We also learn that fighting between boys is fine but girls should never be touched or even join these fights. When the boys get older they get much stronger and suddenly fighting is not ok anymore. Many aren't taught how to function outside their family so they don't know how to act when they get angry.

Societies should be much more strict about not fighting each other. And gender should never matter.

The-Author · 2024-06-16T13:24:46+00:00

I think a big part of why women commit less crime is that society generally tries harder to look after women more than men.

In a lot of cultures, men are expected to be more independent that women and provide/ take care of themselves, especially when it comes to violence. It's a know fact that poverty is a big predictor of crime, and also that there's more pressure on men to earn more both to support themselves and their families as well as to increase romantic prospects, which would provide an extra incentive to men.

CauliflowerActual178 · 2024-06-16T13:50:23+00:00

Because even in poverty a woman demands her man to steal the bread

Content_Lychee_2632 · 2024-06-16T18:08:35+00:00

A lot of crimes perpetrated by women go unprosecuted or aren’t reported by the police that are told. Men commit more reported crimes. For example, women are more likely to get away with white collar crime in the US on a small scale- think wage and hour theft.

SchalaZeal01 · 2024-06-16T19:53:20+00:00

Hello, great question i think about this literally all the time.

I think the dirty little secret is that, much of the time, they actually don’t.

I think it comes down to a few factors.

The onus, in most cultures, is typically on men to provide something financially. Many times in high crime area’s, it’s the men simple trying to provide for their family, and turning to scrupulous means (burglary, robbery) to reach that goal. Especially since private business that could provide regular jobs, don’t want to go to that area, ironically because of the crime. There’s usually cultural AND interpersonal pressure to provide that motivates men to commit crimes.
A few other commenters mentioned this, but cops are less likely to issue citations, DA’s less likely to press charges, and judges less likely to give women harsh sentences, compared to men. Not that they are doing this out of the goodness in their heart, but for cops, they may want something from those women (something innocuous like attention/affection, or sometimes something worse). Law enforcement tend to be the men who like to see themselves as protectors of women. But ironically, by not charging them, they’re endangering the people around that particular woman.
Women’s crimes are typically “quieter”. Emotional child abuse, hitting kids where bruises won’t appear. Many female serial killers work in health care, with patients who are ALREADY at risk for death. Corners are less likely to poke around and ask questions if someone dies in a hospital, or quietly at home, vs. when someone dies from violent means.
Women often have built in plausible deniability. You often see in true crime documentaries, women commit murder, and claim self defense, and typically bring up that they were abused or raped. People seem more likely to believe and accept those explanations from a woman, than from a man.

I think there’s many other reasons, but from my years of research and pondering, those are the most common causes. I think men do tend to commit more crimes, but it’s way closer than most people are comfortable believing.

eli_ashe · 2024-06-16T21:13:10+00:00

we criminalize masculine behavior, we don't criminalize feminine behavior. that is the reason, more or less.

this is true for the same actions being done, for instance sexual harassment howsoever behaviorally defined, is something that is done by men. grab your crotch lewdly as a man towards a women, SH. Do so as a woman to a man, that's empowerment baby. See the 451 percenters for fuller breakdown of how this plays our in regards to sexual crimes, or How To Commit Mass Sexual Violence With Stats to get a long run down of the theoretical framework. there is a TL;DR there that sums it up well enough i think.

for violence, a woman hitting a man basically isn't a real crime. its a joke, and chances are he deserved it anyway and if he called the cops about it, such as in a DV he'd be the one hauled away to jail as a criminal. to be clear there, woman does the bad behavior, man gets counted as the criminal.

as 'providers' men are also tasked generally with 'doing the stuffs', so if there is a crime that needs to be done, its the dudes that gonna do that crime. women, broadly speaking of course, just are not tasked socially by dint of their gender to do the crimes. need cash monies to eat? dude gonna get that bank.

feminine coded criminal behavior simply isn't criminalized. as in, for instance, socially destroying someone's life isn't technically a crime, but it is pretty obviously of a sort of stature that could be construed as a crime. note there used to be laws against such things too, such a gossiping, and there used to be social mores against such practices. in the current tho such activities are praised. similar can be said for such things as sex work, a classically criminal behavior, but these days it isn't a crime, and in fact insofar as it is considered a crime, it is only as men may participate in it, e.g. pimps be bad, hoes be good.

similarly, women direct violence that men do, as in, 'that bad man over there did a thing (real or not), go get em for me'. woman there technically doing what could be construed as a crime, alas tho, only the dude is counted as a criminal. You can see also Criminalization, Culturalization, How Gender Is Used To Criminalize Men's Behavior

To the OP, as a sociology major, you'd do well to consider how gender plays out in the stats you are reading, rather then assume outright that the stats are gender clean.

Good luck.

AskingToFeminists · 2024-06-16T21:23:09+00:00

I recently discussed that at length, hope to link to it, but it is all in French... so I will try to summarise it :

What exactly do you mean by "commit less crime" ? Women are treated more leniently at every step of the justice process, with the gender sentencing gap being estimated as bigger than the racial one. Women also tend more towards harder to detect crimes, like poisoning or hiring hitmen. And women are very adept at agency by proxy, getting others to do their dirty work. One can think about the woman who accused falsely some guy of rape, and her friends and family beat up the guy to death.

So, crime statistics are probably to be taken with a grain of salt. We see clearly from DV numbers, where most cases are bidirectional and most unidirectional cases are female on male violence, that women are more than capable of violence and crime.

So what could justify an eventual disparity I'm propensity to commit crime ?

Well, like I said, women are very good at agency by proxy. It is pretty much a defining feature of gender roles : men are the providers and the protectors. Which means that if a woman feels in danger, she expect men to commit violence to protect them, and if they lack resources, they expect men to find a way to provide them.

A woman lacking protection or provision and seeking it fulfill her gender role by finding a man to give it to her, and gives him an opportunity to fulfil his gender role. A man who finds himself lacking resources or who is in danger has to handle things by himself. So men who have no socially acceptable way to get resources turn to doing crime.

In addition, when worst come to worst, women always have the last option : prostitution. A way out of absolute destitution not available to men to the same extent.

Basically, if you don't take into account the greater pressure on men to protect and provide, with less help available, then all explanations for gender disparities in crimes will miss a huge factor.

dudeness-aberdeen · 2024-06-16T13:48:00+00:00

I think it’s a combo of chivalry theory and breadwinner pressure.

I would absolutely commit a crime to feed my family before I’d ask my wife to. I’d do years in prison to see my wife, son, and animals all provided for. I’m not saying all the statistics are dudes out committing crimes to put food in the pantry. But the pressure on men to provide, regardless of the circumstances, should not go ignored.

Thanks for doing your work!

whiskey_priest_fell · 2024-06-16T20:31:42+00:00

I have nothing to prove this, but I have always thought men commit more crimes because the laws were written to imprison more men. The benefit to imprisoning men is more free stronger labor (in economic terms) or more free soldiers for the government (or the strong man in charge). If you're needing more labor for anything and don't want to pay, it makes sense to write laws to imprison men for things they're more likely to do.

Askefyr · 2024-06-16T21:14:12+00:00

A theory I've heard before, but can't remember where I saw, is that the same kind of economic desperation that makes men commit violent- or drug related crimes will make women turn to sex work.

JJnanajuana · 2024-06-17T00:04:02+00:00

I think that there are a number of factors that contribute a small part each to the difference.

Some of these, all anecdotal experiences...

I've known a few small time drug dealing families. That's families that survived off dealing drugs.

The women's involvement varied in different families from almost none (looked after the kids while he bought in the money) to being the organiser/doing all the logistics, both ways the men (and sometimes kids) did the riskiest parts, (transporting, meeting to sell, going to the fields to water etc... )

The men in these families are in and out of jail all the time, the women have stayed out, picking up welfare or new 'employees' while the men are inside. (different paths)

I've known kids with chaotic childhoods, (often the same familes, but others too) the boys take risks, get into drugs, steal things, etc, the girls do that too, but then the girls get pregnant, young, their focus turns to taking care of the kids, same for the boys though, but they are more likely to 'take care of the kids' by making money, and the best ways they know to do that are illegal.

So that has more men committing crime. And covers a few of the times I know where a crime has been committed by both men and women, and the men take the fall (they were going to anyways, they did it, may as well pretend the woman was innocent.)

On the more serious crimes like murder, when a woman goes missing, the partner is suspected (ie Samantha Murphey, killed by a random man on a jog (no body)husband wasn't suspected for long, but he was suspected.) when men go missing, it's mostly assumed suicide.

This is in line with statistics about what's most likely to happen, but surely those assumptions and resulting investigations drive those statistics further than they actually are.

There's also size differences and ability, it only works on averages, which means it works on a population/statistics level, but I've seen a girl go absolutely nuts on her boyfriend, if he'd done the same, he would have hospitalised her, but he ended up bruised and didn't report it. I imagine that as that kind of violence gets even worse the physical ability to 'do serious damage' and to 'defend/restrain' makes for a significant difference in outcome.

Then there's things like murder by proxy, (that woman wasn't convicted of murder, but was of other things) which is starting to be convicted, when they are caught. Murder by proxy is an option most murderous men don't have access to.

Then there's the impact of plea deals, where when 2 people glass each other the girl gets a lighter sentence for pleading guilty (it was on cct) while the man gets a sentence based on hers (that the judge thought was light) but longer because he thought it was self defence since he was responding to getting glassed, so didn't plead guilty and of women being charged with manslaughter for stabbing their partner in the chest and getting no conviction at all after stabbing him in the heart.

That might happen for some men, but I haven't heard of a case where a man stabbed a woman in the heart over a petty argument (agreed facts) and the jury said not guilty, even of manslaughter...

2024-06-16T15:32:50+00:00

Historically 80% of women reproduced and 40% of men reproduced.

So the average woman "succeeds" biologically speaking if they just play it safe. Hence, don't commit crimes.

The average man "loses" biologically speaking (doesn't reproduce) if he plays it safe. Hence, more temptation to commit crimes.

Furthermore, if as a woman you have little morals / self-respect and want a lot of money, an easy and more lucrative way to make money is just only fans, or get a sugar daddy, or marry a rich guy and then divorce him. So women might get drawn to that, and men don't have these options.

Also, women get convicted less often for crimes, which means that if you look at statistics they seem to commit fewer crimes than they actually do.

educateddrugdealer42 · 2024-06-16T15:11:40+00:00

Why would 3/10 police officers and judges now being women make things any better for men? Men being judged more harshly is about misandry, not chivalry...

mamapizzahut · 2024-06-16T15:23:16+00:00

I would say like in much of social science, it's a little bit of all of the factors that you listed. It's a frustrating answer, but this is why social science is actually tough and requires a ton of statistics and very careful consideration - unlike physics ke mechanics, there are countless complex and fuzzy factors at play.

Having said all that, biology is a major factor I would say. You can look at all the apes or even primates more generally and see the same pattern. Males are more aggressive, they are more muscular, they fight each other and are the first to confront danger. But I'm sure even in primates that behavior is a mix of biology and socializing within their group.

Evolutionarily we really are not different from cavemen and that very "apes like world". All of civilization is just 10-15k years old, that is very little in evolutionary terms. Modern Homo Sapiens have been around for at least 100k years. For most of modern human history, the "ape structure" for modern society made perfect sense, and mirrored other Homo behavior.

Agriculture changed these structures and scale, but due to the violent nature of life, traditional protective but violent male roles still were valued.

It is only the past 100-200 years, as our society became safer and more technological the cons of male aggressive behavior started outweighing the pros.

If we have a nuclear war or something, I think those surviving through the apocalypse and afterwards would almist certainly shift back to traditional gender roles.

But that is an interesting research question, do modern people shift to traditional roles when shit really hits the fan. I would hypothesize that many if not most do, but I don't have data to make serious claims.

Punder_man · 2024-06-16T21:12:13+00:00

I think the issue here isn't that men are "prone" to committing crime.. its more that when a man commits a crime he is more likely to be indicted and charged with the crime.
It also depends on the statistics you are looking at and how they are measuring "Crime"

Are they measuring it based on people charged with committing a crime? or are they basing it off of people found guilty in court of committing a crime?

If the former then you run into the issue of innocent people being charged with crimes they did not commit and the fact that women are less likely to be charged with crimes in the first place.
If the later, then you have to deal with the fact that the Justice system is incredibly biased against men..

This leads to a situation where the statistics paint a tale which infers that men are prone to crime because the stats show the majority of those charged with crime are men..

Look at rape for example and the common feminist rhetoric of "Men commit 99% of rapes!"
And sure.. the statistics back that statement up..
But the problem is, the crime of "Rape" is specifically gendered to ensure the only men can be charged with it..
So when you have a crime that only men can be guilty of.. is it really surprising when the statistics reflect that?

Men receive more severe sentences than women in general because when the seriousness of crimes are accounted for, men commit more serious crimes, but when women do commit a crime of the same severity they are sentenced the same, in fact 2006 home office stats show that women the seriousness of crimes committed by women has risen very little, but the serious of their sentencing has risen a lot. (Due to society judging them more seriously not juts because offending breaks the law, but because offending breaks the social norms imposed on women)

I have major issues with this..
Even if men are more likely to commit more serious crimes that does not excuse the fact that when a woman DOES commit a serious crime or is as violent as a man can be.. she often doesn't get held to the same standard a man would be for that crime..

When a man kills a woman, it is treated as serious and he often receives a lengthy jail sentence for his crime..
But when a woman kills a man? its often treated as justified or self defense and so she often gets a much more lenient sentence than a get.
Or, her actions are often attributed to "A man forced her to do evil"

TL;DR: Accountability for men is both expected and required, Accountability for women is oppressive and needs to be avoided.. (at least that's how it feels to me as a man living in our society today)

Finally, Best of luck on posting the same thing on a Feminist sub..
Chances are you will either get censored or the responses you get will be them stating "Its because of The Patriarchy!"

bortalizer93 · 2024-06-16T22:38:04+00:00

Because they don’t have to.

You need to see crime from a leftist viewpoint; ie fanon’s wretched of the earth and freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed.

People don’t do crime as a leisure activity, they do it because they absolutely have no other choice than doing it.

And in a male-chauvinist society, there are many more socio-economic safety nets for women (and i say this with a caveat, it is still a method of exploitation by the ruling class). This leads to women not being pushed into a corner as often as men, so they don’t feel the need to commit crimes.

Sure-Vermicelli4369 · 2024-06-16T15:38:53+00:00

Women are more likely to have their needs met, because they have the ability to date up.

Blauwpetje · 2024-06-16T13:40:17+00:00

An original reason I once read in Areo: when women are short of money they can always flee into prostitution (it is not a nice choice, but it is a choice) while men are sooner forced to use violent crime.

Grand-Juggernaut6937 · 2024-06-17T13:28:05+00:00

Have you seen how much college-aged women steal? They don’t commit less crime, they just aren’t taken as seriously.

Additionally, women don’t have to be providers nearly so there’s much less impotus to commit more serious/financially motivated crimes.

And lastly girls typically aren’t allowed in organized crime, so there’s that.

NYD3030 · 2024-06-16T20:38:12+00:00

I think that the fact that most high T men don’t commit crimes doesn’t disprove biology at all. As a sociologist you should be aware that population level effects can’t be disproven by individual exceptions.

Also, this line of reasoning ignores that virtually all men have much higher testosterone than women, and that is your population comparison.

I think the biological argument is pretty strong, as in all cultures that I’m aware of men commit more crimes, so it’s hard to say it’s a cultural phenomenon.

I think the closest you can come is that the bad things men do are more likely to be considered criminal. If social violence was criminalized tomorrow, what would happen to crime statistics?

Like all things, the answer is probably partially biology and partially culture.

Ok_Comment_8515 · 2024-06-18T10:28:15+00:00

People have given a lot of good answers what I will add for context is that in the UK we have a female offenders strategy to reduce the number of female prisoners. We don't have a similar thing for men nor do we have any form of official statement on the number of male prisoners

BigLetter7009 · 2025-02-17T01:08:50+00:00

womans commit so much crimes as mans, but how the low is more lenient on then they don't go to jail more frequently, another fruit of the pathriarcal culture because how womans are not threaten as equals to mens justice usually don't take womans seriously enought to send then to jail, in the pathriarchal society mans are taken more seriously than womans, that's why the law give more responsabilities to mans than to womans, in the same way there's more mans in leadership positions there are more mans in jail because the law and society treat mans more seriously than womans

BigLetter7009 · 2025-02-17T01:12:12+00:00

girl just search about the disparity between the punishment for pedophilie between mans and womans, pedophile mans have more jail time than womans and womans almost never even go to jail when they commited that crime! there are a lot of datas proofing that

jessi387 · 2024-06-16T13:42:24+00:00

We’ll men don’t really commit more crime. Poor men commit more crime. And it’s only really young men. Boys born into upper middle class backgrounds don’t commit more crime.

Blauwpetje · 2024-06-16T13:24:08+00:00

Why is the biological theory outdated? I think it’s just not politically correct. And the counterexamples you give are hardly convincing, as we’re always talking about averages, not absolutes.

Camille Paglia put it this way: there are more male criminals for the same reason that there are more male geniuses. In other words: men are on average more competitive and risk-taking than women. It doesn’t mean the majority of men is responsible for it, it remains a small percentage; nor that ‘toxic masculinity’ caused by societal expectations plays a crucial role.

elyamoo · 2024-06-16T15:50:16+00:00

Women are more agreeable by nature because being agreeable is the safest thing when having a baby or child to protect. You dont want a confrontation around a child in nature (think before modern civilization). So evolution has led to this.

Also, because of them being at a great physical disadvantage to men, having a more agreeable personality has always been the safest, and all of this goes tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years back.

Being high in disagreeableness is the biggest common denominator for people who are in jail (or commit crime).

Cablepussy · 2024-06-16T19:01:44+00:00

One reason but not a total contributing factor is that male criminals exist so female criminals who are alone are relegated largely to non violent crime unless they’re already ready to rock someone with a weapon.

Most criminals don’t start out killers or gang bangers so when women think about doing crimes men do one thing they have to think about is if they want to get beaten and raped because honestly that’s what happens.

No-Equipment-1052 · 2024-06-16T22:59:50+00:00

Because they can't even do that right?

johnnycarrotheid · 2024-06-17T11:20:39+00:00

If anyone's ever done the ritual 18yr old "club life" they tend to see it first hand. Kicking out time from the clubs, there's dudes fighting with cheerleaders at the side 🤷 "Cause it, but don't do it" plays a large factor, as has already been talked about. Sometimes they will get involved, but tbh, the police don't often see the point. If they have kids, slap on the wrist, "don't do it again" is all that happens to them. Likely won't get charged as they don't get sentenced.

Similar to the above talking about Mexico. Seen homes get raided, guy takes the fall for "whatever was in the home", and the woman stays, usually to look after the kids. Both parents carted off, kids need looked after, which drags in a whole system that's always massively underfunded. If one stays out of jail, it saves the govt a fortune from picking up the pieces.

Few_Sink_7386 · 2024-06-19T03:45:27+00:00

Men are left to fetch for themselves. Women aren't on the same level as Men. Therefore Men commit more crime as it's the only way to make a decent living when the society has left you in the mud.

2024-09-16T17:06:16+00:00

Well they can't commit crime when you condition society to never believe they commit crimes. Especially when the crimes they commit are against men. I've been a victim to many women and never believed even when all the evidence says otherwise. It's sad when a society pushes equality but at the same time dehumanizes men to the point their lives can be violated with no support.

Acrobatic_Computer · 2024-06-16T19:41:08+00:00

Bio theory isn't that T leads to crime but that T leads to dominance-seeking (for lack of a better term) behavior which is correlated with crime. There are non-crime ways to "follow through" on having higher T, just like how there are good and bad uses for jet fuel. Jet fuel causes explosions and also makes air travel possible, the two uses aren't contradictory.

Control theory would seem to predict a massive spike in women's crime we never saw AFAIK.

Sex roles and socialization in general fails to explain why the presence of a father correlates to lower odds of committing crime. If crime were socially enforced from a pervasive top-down mechanism we should expect the opposite.

Chivalry doesn't need to be exclusive to men to have an impact, women can also discriminate in favor of women.

I'd add that as far as social environment goes, I think women are seen as having more inherent /social value than men. This means men when they take risks are risking less than women. When you're confident in your social position (due to biology or wealth) then it is easy to not rock the boat vs if you're in a more precarious position.

It is a multi-variate problem, of which we can only possibly control certain variables and even of those, we cannot control them perfectly (reducing fatherlessness is something that we cannot just flip a switch and change).

Comfortable-Wish-192 · 2024-06-16T13:21:23+00:00

Women rank higher in agreeableness and have ( often) more compassion. We don’t want to see people hurt.

Women are more risk adverse.

Women tend to be less selfish.

Women don’t have mens sex drive (SA and molestation are generally committed by men).

Women lack physical strength to rape a conscious man even if they had the compulsion.

Women have the ability to find a man to provide so less desperation for resources ( drug dealing etc.)

Clousder · 2024-06-16T23:13:18+00:00

I think a BIG chunk of it is crime is inherently an anti-social behavior and woman are just inherently more socially apt and a lot of men are socially off and autistic.

CosmicCoder3303 · 2024-06-17T15:16:49+00:00

This has been true in every society on Earth, so I don't really think this is some kind of societal issue. I think it's more of like a men are more aggressive genetically issue quite frankly

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