Attempts in various fields have tried to explore a possible relation between gender and crime. Violence is being measured by imprisonment statistics. This fails to account violence that goes unreported and men have an overwhelming heuristical bias to not report being victimized. Such studies may belong to criminology, sociobiology (which attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between biological factors, in this case sex, and human behaviors), etc. Despite the difficulty to interpret them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship, whose possible existence would be interesting from a gender differences perspective. An observable difference might be due to social and cultural factors, crimes going unreported or to biological factors (as sociobiological theories claim). Furthermore, the nature of the crime itself must be considered.
Studies find that males are incarcerated for crimes more often than females. This is particularly true for violent crimes.
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