Men are less likely to be punished

• The justice system is biased against women
• Carlen


  found that women seen as good mothers were less likely to be jailed than those with children in care.

  Judgements about womens adherence to traditional gender roles can affect sentencing more than severity of the crime.
• Even though men commit more serious offences,they might receive lighter sentences for deviating from gender roles,while women face harsher judgement for breaking expected roles
• Challenges the chivalry hypothesis and suggests that gender differences in crime are greater then imprisonment rates show