Punishments, Homicides, Sex Crimes, Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Public Morals, Or Crimes Of Abuse.

Gender in Sex Offending and Sentencing Name Course Tutors Name Date Introduction Men are overflowing from prison, but there are hardly any women in prison. Are men naturally predisposed to criminal activities The International Centre for prison studies puts the median global population of men in prisons at 96. The median population of women in prison is only 4. In British prisons, less than 5 of the population is female. Only 3 of the female population in France is female while just below 6 of the prison population in Germany is female (Abrahams, 2015). In the United States,February 2017 statistics indicate that 93.3 of Federal prison population was male inmates (Choy, Raine, Venables, Farrington, 2017). As with all crimes, men dominate sexual offenses. The Uniform Crime Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigations for 2005 reported that females made up only 1.5 of all arrests for rape (Federal Bureau of Investigations, 2005). In most criminology research, the established topology of a criminal is a male offender. Partly because of the established topology and the low rate of female sex offenders, there is gendered difference in criminal offending and punishment. The criminal justice system differs to gender in sex offending and