Female sex offenders protected by the criminal justice system

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-05-31 22:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'Los Angeles, CA (May 30, 2012) Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males says a study recently published in Feminist Criminology, a SAGE journal and the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.

Embry and Lyons looked at the sentences that male and female sex offenders received for specific sex offenses and found that even after the implementation of sentencing guidelines to ensure equality in sentencing, on average male sentences were between 6% and 31% longer than female sentences for the same or similar crimes.

"It appears as if the criminal justice system actually treats women more leniently than men," wrote Randa Embry and Phillip M. Lyons, Jr., authors of the study.

The researchers explained this disparity by discussing the American idea that "women are weaker and, therefore, must be protected at all times regardless of their status as victims or offenders."'

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"Obviously, as a social institution, the criminal justice system is reluctant to break those social norms and gender roles in response to atypical gendered behavior."

And just what the heck is that supposed to mean? Are they implying that men are typically the ones who commit sick acts like this? You would think this very study would have shown them that this is not true. Then again, some people never learn.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2012-06-01 07:08