Post by @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

@neil

And it is pretty much always men.

I had a look at the violent crime statistics today to see if my recollections were true, and they more or less were. Violent crimes, overall, do not have much gender bias among victims. Domestic abuse is about twice as likely for the victim to be female, some other subcategories have roughly opposite ratios.

But, across all violent crime, men are over four times as likely to be the perpetrator. That's a staggering difference. It's far higher than the gender gap in victims. And it shows some serious cultural problems in how men are taught to behave and what society considers acceptable.

And, although there is some variation between years, those numbers have been fairly consistent for the last decade. 2018 was an outlier with a normal number of violent crimes by men and a lot more by women, men were only about 3.5x more likely to be the perpetrators then. That's the only year where it drops below 4x, and the highest years were over 6.5x. The average over the last decade was slightly under 5x.