gender stats

• 95% offenders are male
• around 80% of all reported and record crime is committed by men
• Three out of four convicted offenders in England and Wales are male.
• By the age of 40, 9% of females have a criminal conviction, as against 32% of males.
• A higher proportion of female than male offenders are convicted of property offences (except burglary).
• A higher proportion of male than female offenders are convicted of violence or sexual offences.
• men are about 15 times more likely to be convicted of homicide.
• chivalry thesis

  • Females are more likely than males to be released on bail rather than remanded in custody.
  • Females are more likely than males to receive a fine or a community sentence, and less likely to be sent to prison.
  • Only one in nine female offenders receive a prison sentence for shoplifting, but one in five males.
• statistics against the chivalry thesis

  • Box - review of British and American self-report studies concludes that women who commit serious offences are not treated more favourably than men.
  • Yearnshire - found that a woman typically suffers 35 assaults before reporting domestic violence. shows men not always lenient towards women
• CSEW 2012 - 70% Homicide victims are male
• CSEW 2012 More women are victims of intimate violence (domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking). One in four will experience domestic abuse during their adult life.
• Only 8% of females who had experienced serious sexual assault reported it. 
• victim surveys such as by Lea and Young (1993) have found that women are in fact at greater risk than men.
• A03 Of victim surveys

  • validity - victims may give honest answers, due to fear of perpetrator finding out
  • do not necessarily convey the frequency or severity of the victimisation
• violent crimes

  • 81% committed by males in 2019
  • 12% by females
  • 7% combination of males and female
• robbery

  • 89% by males
  • 5% by females
  • over 1/2 committed by 16-24 year olds
• criminal damage

  • 72% male
  • 15% female
• victimisation


  CSEW 2019 - 19.7% males were victim of crime

  18.9% female victims