RT Article
T1 Gender Equality and Female Offending: Evidence From International Data Sources
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 65
IS 13/14
SP 1496
OP 1519
A1 Chu, Doris C.
A2 Hebenton, Bill
A2 Toh, Albert
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1770025367
AB 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.
K1 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index
K1 Female offending
K1 Gender Equality
DO 10.1177/0306624X20986527