{"id":1938,"date":"2005-11-10T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2005-11-10T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T07:48:18","slug":"violent-crime-and-gender-are-we-approaching-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Violent Crime and Gender: Are We Approaching Equality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting chart from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/glance\/vsx2.htm\">Bureau of Justice Statistics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/violence_and_gender.gif\" class=\"centered\" \/>\n<pracut>\n(You can see the numbers broken down by type of crime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/pdf\/cvus\/current\/cv0302.pdf\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What intrigues me is that the once-enourmous difference between the sexes, in terms of which sex is more often the victim of violent crime, has gone down to a fairly narrow difference.<\/p>\n<p>(And the difference would be even narrower if rape and intimate partner violence &#8211; two mostly-female-victim areas the BJS stats badly undercount &#8211; were fully accounted for.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good news that violent crime is down. Except, perhaps, for men&#8217;s rights advocates &#8211; for whom one of the principle proofs of male victimhood is that men <strike>are<\/strike> used to be vastly more likely to be victims of violent crime.<\/pracut>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting chart from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: (You can see the numbers broken down by type of crime here.) What intrigues me is that the once-enourmous difference between the sexes, in terms of which sex is more often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-feminists-and-their-pals","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}