GENDER AND VIOLENCE (CRIMINOLOGY)

Gender and Violence (Criminology)



Gender and Violence (Criminology)

Introduction

Under the international law and, court Violence can be defined as any verbal or physical assault directed against a person or persons by a single or multiple individual. These assaults are performed with the intention to hurt the victim, physically, emotionally or psychologically. Physical abuse involves such acts as striking, smacking, punching, stabbing, strangling, pushing, kicking, burning or drowning. Emotional and Psychological abuse is somewhat linked together since both of them are to do with a person's mind frame. Verbal abuses are the acts of shouting, screaming, threatening, name calling, humiliating, coercing, lying, manipulating and sarcasm. The performance of any of the said activities against another human being with the intention of causing pain or discomfort is classified as committing violence against them.

Discussion:

Over time, studies have showed that men more likely to commit violent acts than women.

Muncie (2004: 33) states that overall men are responsible for 92 per cent of convicted cases of violence against the person.

This statement lends credibility to the fact that, majority of the violent crimes are committed by the males of any society. Since ours is a male derivative and dominant societies, it stands to logic that the majority of the offenders are males, as well. However, male violence is exceptionally brutal, offensive and most of the times fatal. This however does not mean that women are free of the taint of criminology. Women are also reported to have committed violent crimes but at a very low figure. The last incident of female violence was reported in 1955 by a British lady against her husband.

“Numerically and statistically insignificant, female violence is easily dismissed as inconsequential compared to the problem of male violence” (Burman M., 2001: 443).

According survey, the male, female ratio of committed the following transgression ...