Gender Equality and Female Offending: Evidence From International Data Sources
| Autor: | Doris C. Chu, Albert K. Toh, Bill Hebenton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gender Equity
Gender equality 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Information Storage and Retrieval Gender studies Pathology and Forensic Medicine Europe Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Female 0509 other social sciences Psychology Applied Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology. 65(13-14) |
| ISSN: | 1552-6933 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the nature of female offending patterns in relationship to societal gender equality using cross-national analysis of 27 European countries for the year 2006. Importantly, our analysis uses a conceptually innovative indicator (the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index) to determine relative levels of gender equality. Results show that countries with a narrower gender gap in the Global Gender Gap indexes of political empowerment were likely to have a higher female prosecution rate, and that political empowerment was also significantly associated with female conviction rates as well as rates of property offending. The pattern of results generally supports the liberation thesis. Finally, limitations and suggestions for future study are addressed. |
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