Gender Equality and Female Offending: Evidence From International Data Sources

Doris C. Chu; Bill Hebenton; Albert Toh

doi:10.1177/0306624X20986527

Gender Equality and Female Offending: Evidence From International Data Sources

Doris C. Chu^*, Bill Hebenton, Albert Toh

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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 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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1496-1519
Number of pages	24
Journal	International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Volume	65
Issue number	13-14
Early online date	15 Jan 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20986527
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2021
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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gender equality
female offending
World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index

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