Gender Equality and Female Offending: Evidence From International Data Sources

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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...

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Main Author: Chu, Doris C. (Author)
Contributors: Hebenton, Bill ; Toh, Albert
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 65, Issue: 13/14, Pages: 1496-1519
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index
Female offending
Gender Equality
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X20986527