I know that women hoard animals more than men do, but I wouldn’t really count that since it’s more of a mental illness than a criminal thing and the intent is good.
I’ve also heard that women lie more and are more likely to kill their own children. It seems like men in general are more likely to do evil things, but maybe women just get away with it more or hurt in a more indirect way?
I’d bet prostitution is overwhelmingly women, even if you don’t limit it to arrests and convictions. I’d be surprised if the ratio was even close to 10:1.
I’d also bet on petty theft and petty larceny being tilted towards women, but that might be because the legal system still tends to minimize crimes by women and what a man might get slapped with is more serious than what a woman in the same place might get.
I believe women are more likely than men to commit murder using poison. When I was a teen-ager it seemed like the girls were more often shoplifters than the boys.
ETA: Oh yeah, obvious point above about prostitution.
Other than prostitution,rates are growing, but still below men.
Certain “revenge for cheating” acts would be pretty specific to women, I think, like taking a golf club to the windshield of a guy’s car, or everything recounted in “Hit 'Em Up Style”.
Baby napping from a hospital case to keep and raise(not kidnapping for ransom or such) has been a woman I have seen.
Violence against children : commited by the mother 50% more often than by the father IIRC, and twice as often for child murder.
Woman person A convince person B to kill person C…
If you wrap that into a general “domestic violence/murder” category, then the balance shifts towards men again, doesn’t it?
Bullies tend to look for someone smaller and weaker than themselves - a female abuser simply has a smaller number of plausible targets than a male one does. I’m not sure if child-directed violence is all that different in category than any other sort of intimate violence (though worse in results, of course 
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Huh. If it’s true, it’s true, I wonder why though. Male lions kill kids of rival males but mother lions never do because half the genes of every kid is theirs. Similarly, “mother’s baby, daddy’s maybe” is the general rule for maternity/paternity.
I would have guessed this as well, but according to kunilou’s Law Library link this is not the case. These crimes have among the highest percentages of female offenders, but women are apparently still in the minority:
As for murder, according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics all types of murder they track are more likely to be committed by men than women. (See Table 5 on page 10.) The gender gap is smallest when the victim is under age 5 or when poison is used. In both cases it’s about 60/40 for male vs. female killers.
There’s more detailed information on murders of children under age 5 on page 7. When it comes to children murdered by a parent, the numbers are almost equal for children murdered by their fathers (33%) and by their mothers (30%). A large majority (80%) of children killed by someone other than a parent are killed by a man.
As for the OP, if one considers having an abortion to be immoral (I don’t, but a lot of people do) then that’s an exclusively female “vice”.
Child abusers are overwhelmingly women, over twice as many female offenders as male.
No, that’s only true of the very broad categories in that specific document. In fact the US Bureau of Justice Statistics states that “In murders of their offspring, women predominated, accounting for 55% of killers”
Men are more likely to kill children not their own. Women are more likely to kill their own children.
Post-partum depression may be part of the equation. Another might be simple exposure - mothers are still much more often the primary care givers ( or caretakers ) of young children and thus more likely snap under that particular stress.
I wonder how that breaks down by custody. That is, what percentage of these cases were:
And the same for the father. I’m curious how much of it is “women tend to abuse children more” vs “women tend to have custody, and thus opportunity to abuse children more”.
Based on newspaper accounts of local and regional arrests and prosecutions I have read over time the majority of small business, municipal and association embezzlers seem to be females as they are the secretaries, bookkeepers and cash controllers. As the amounts rise I can imagine more men would be involved.
Don’t know. I’ve no clue how the number of spouses murdered compares to the number of children murdered. Besides, when a woman kills, the victim is significantly more likely to be a family member than when a man does. So, the “female murderer/male murderer” ratio is presumably less skewed towards men for domestic murders than for murders in general.
I’m not convinced at all that it’s the same dynamic. Especially for murders. Someone violent is likely to hit any convenient target, and might as a result, kills. But what percentage of domestic murders is caused by uncontroled violence as opposed to any number of other motivations (murdering a cheating spouse or at the contrary cheater getting rid of his spouse, life insurance money, killing the spouse about to divorce, getting rid of an inconvenient child, infanticide immediately after birth, killing a child to get revenge on the other parent, murder-suicides, etc…)?
Huh? Humans aren’t driven by instinct. We kill for much more complex reasons than our instinct telling us to do so. I’m sure that sometimes “he’s not mine” is a factor in the murder of a child by his step parent, but purely from what I read/hear in the media, it doesn’t seem to be the most common reason why people kill their children. I would suspect (totally wild guess) that the most common situation is the parent killing his children before comitting suicide.
Mothers kill their children more often than fathers to begin with because they’re more often raising them/in charge of them.
How are they in any way different?
This seems like you’re trying to minimise the fact that women commit serious crimes against children.
Would you also say “I’m curious how much of it is ‘men tend to rape women more’ vs ‘men tend are stronger, and thus opportunity to rape women more’.”
If you wouldn’t say that, then why apply that sort of minimisation to women? Women are overwhelmingly responsible for abuse of children, that’s a fact.
I don’t understand what you could mean by “how much of it” is women abusing children. *All *of it is women abusing children. None of it is anything else. Is there some doubt in your mind that some of that 40% isn’t “really” women abusing children? Do you harbour the same doubts about “how much” of men raping women is actually rape?
From a French Wikipedia article, according to a 2001 Canadian study, the perpetrators of domestic violence against children are :
Biological mother 61 %
Biological father 38 %
Stepfather 9 %
Stepmother 3 %
Foster family 1 %
Other family members 7 %
In the USA, for child murders, the perpetrators were :
Mother alone 32 %
Father alone 11 %
Both parents 21 %
Mother and another person (not the father) 16 %
Father and another person (not the mother) 1 %
Other family member 5 %
Foster family 6 %
Other acquaintance 6 %
Stranger 2 %
FWIW - most child murders I read about are committed by not the 20 year old baby-daddy, who is long gone, but by the new 20 year old unemployed live-in “fiance”, babysitting while mommy works the night shift at McDonalds. Comes home to find Bubba has flung junior across the room because it wouldn’t stop crying. So maybe it’s women-murder-children-by-proxy, not deliberately in most cases. "I trusted Bubba! How could he do this to John Wayne Smith Jr.??? "