Of the 1,089 murderers convicted over the period, just 58 – around one in 20 – were female.Ĭriminologists have long debated the reason for the male inclination towards crime and violence.
These include some of the most heinous crimes, including 99 per cent of rape cases. Similarly, just 7 per cent of weapon or robbery offences involved a female defendant.Īcross the 10 categories that all offences are grouped into, such as robbery, violent crime or criminal damage, women only commit more than one in five crimes in just one case: fraud.Īcross 281 commonly committed crimes recorded by the Ministry of Justice, men are responsible in at least 95 per cent of cases in 68 of them. Just 1.8 per cent of prosecutions for sexual offences involved women. These are #NotOurCrimes.”Īnalysis of crimes sent to court in England and Wales in the three years between 20, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice, overwhelmingly backs this up.įor example, of the 1.3 million, non-motoring offences prosecuted in the period where gender was known, women make up just 12 per cent of all defendants.īut if you break the analysis down more granularly, the gaps show a starker picture. In a tweet referencing Sky News’s decision to describe Blake as a “woman”, the author said: “I’m sick of this s. Yet this is the statement JK Rowling felt forced to make in reaction to the coverage of Scarlet Blake, the convicted murderer born a male but who identifies as a woman. In criminology, it is one of the least controversial statements to make: men commit vastly more crimes than women.