Gender patterns and trends

• Responsibility for Crimes

  Home office data shows male teenagers aged 12-18 years were responsible for 20% of all recorded crimes in 2009 and 2010, with women only responsible for 4%
• Peak age


  Official crime data shows that the peak age for female offending is 15 and 18 for males
• Munchie


  Small rises in recorded crimes create a moral panic about female offending and girls in gangs, suggesting the rise of imprisonment of young women has been an exaggeration.
• Bachelor


  After Burman et al published a study on girls and violence it created a moral panic about girls and gangs