I’m doing an essay right now on gender discrimination, and I want to highlight this statistic as evidence that some men think of women as weaker than men (not saying I’m one of them. :D) I know of a few sources of information, neither of which provide the information I seek:
The National Crime Victimization Survey
The FBI’s missing persons database - lists people who were kidnapped under suspicious circumstances and are still known to the FBI to be missing, but not those who are known to have been abducted.
In the absence of hard data, I will accept anything that will allow me to estimate the number.
I think there are all sorts of problems with your post, ranging from asking us to do homework for you, to creating a conclusion and looking only for cherry picked data that supports your previously determined conclusion.
That being said, your answer is “3”
3 is the number you seek.
And also, that you’re using terms that are equivalent (abducted and kidnapped) as different, without defining the difference. If you mean abducted by space aliens, that would be yet another problem.
Well men do tend to be larger and physically stronger than women. There’s plenty of good sound evidence behind that. It’s actually pretty common among primates. Cherry picking one statistic that could be influenced by the reality of sexual dimorphism along with all kinds of cultural factors and misperceptions which genuinely are discrimination seems like the basis for a weak argument.
OK, well I did find an article just now. It does provide an estimate, but: 1) it was published in 1995, and 2) the estimate is for child abductions. It doesn’t address adult abductions. It does, however, point to other studies in which numbers were provided, such as the National Incidence Study of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children.
Oh, and “abduction” as I’m using it means abduction by a human. Kidnapping = child abduction.
I took a closer look at the National Incidence Study of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children, and it looks like the counted abducted children were predominantly female.
In post 37 of that thread it is noted that the FBI characterizes kidnapping as an “infrequent” crime. The Bureau of Justice Statistics doesn’t even track kidnapping in the Crime Victimization Survey (cite). However when you look at the 2013 Bureau of Justice Statistics crime victimization survey, it shows that men are more commonly the victim of violent crime than women: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv13.pdf (see table 9)
I saw that thread, actually. I decided to post a new thread, because I thought that maybe someone would post some new information that wasn’t mentioned in that thread (Perhaps the kind of information I sought would now be available, but wasn’t when the discussion took place. Or perhaps it was available, but nobody posted it in the thread.)
Opening up a thread on a message board helps make it easier for the next person to find the same info, because they’ll see the thread while using a search engine.
