These violent crimes include aggravated assault and sex offense, excluding rape and prostitution. ... It appears that over the past two decades women have had to assume male roles in the home and workplace. These adaptations of male roles and traits are due to a higher divorce rate, leaving many single mothers and also the rise of women in typically male positions in the workplace. As women adopt these male traits and roles, this increases the involvement in crime. Even on the streets it is evident that women are gaining status because of the increase in female gangs and gang members. ...

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Consider these statistics: - Domestic violence is the single major cause of injury to American women, exceeding muggings, gang violence, murders, and accidents (New York: 1993. ... Furthermore, studies where pornographic films are shown to students disclose that in the end, "male students are more hostile toward women's rights and to their struggle for equality."... Recent studies have found that college men exposed to just a few of these films tend to lack empathy towards female victims of rape, believing she "deserved what she got."... For every 10 male characters on primetime netwo...

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The inequality in gender patterns between males and females is not a new concept; men have always been associated extensively with violence compared to women. Whenever there is a media story in the news about a violent crime committed, we automatically assume that a male is a perpetrator. This is due to males being over-represented by the media, which will be discussed later on in this piece of work. ... We know that 'the male age-crime curve suggests that offending is concentrated among men in the 11-25 age range' (Ray, 2011:85). ... It was distinguished that male dominance over ...

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Global Perspective Women living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are afraid to speak about the abuse they go through at home in fear of their husbands/fathers/male guardians as they are brutally abused. ... Physical violence has been a major issue, women are not protected enough and therefore cases such as gang rapes and kidnaps are increasing. ... Women would be respected and not considered weak, and therefore cases such as rapes would decrease. ...

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Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significan...

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