Why do women receive much lighter sentences as compared to men convicted of the same crimes ?

Question

Things like:

Statutory rape and sexual molestation

Domestic violence

Abuse or murder of children

And even murder of a spouse

To name but a few.

Answer 1

I've been asking the same question for a lng time.. Word has it we're created equal..  I'm convinced that there will never be a legitimate answer or one I am content with.. Generally speaking, given that broads are seldom forced to pay for their crimes with as intense a punishment as a man receives, they will on that basis never be equal to a man, Period. Case Closed.

Answer 2

To Valerie C.

She writes : "Can you cite some stats to show this is true? I haven't seen any proof. In addition far fewer females engage in any sorts of violence compared to males.

And women who kill their spouses have been shown to have been abused for years before they do this. So there is some justification for their killing"

So, she asks for citation and then goes on sayin that women who kill their spouses have been abused. WHat the fuc k is her citation?

And is she justifying killing a person? What in the name of ....?

This takes the cake. So in her opinion, if a woman nags and verbally abuses a man for a long time, killing her is justified?

What r****d of a person is this?  

Answer 3

Because women's groups try (and often successes) to subvert justice. Recent events that come to mind is when N.O.W. came to the defense of Andrea Yates for killing her 5 children, and when N.O.W. and Duke's Women's Studies department staged rallies against the Duke Lacrosse team falsely accused of rape. Our justice system is scared crapless of totalitarian feminism.

Answer 4

Princess-

"I guess it's a kind of effect of the sexist view that women are the weaker s*x. People can't make label women as vulnerable and weak and then punish them 'like a man'."

-- Or reward them or give them opportunities 'like a man', right? - If that's the stance you're taking.

Answer 5

There is a ongoing sentiment that women are victims, and whatever befalls them is some man's fault.

Answer 6

Why does the judicial system invoke lighter penalties?  Not really sure - but if the judicial system is so strongly influenced by a movement, then I would suggest you take it up with the government.....

Answer 7

I guess it's a kind of effect of the sexist view that women are the weaker s*x. People can't make label women as vulnerable and weak and then punish them 'like a man'.

Answer 8

Women are punished more harshly than men for the same crime.  They also never get out of prison for overcrowding because female prisons are NOT overcrowded like men's prisons.  You cite no statistics, so you must think that by writing a question you verify the premise.  That is wrong.  Your question is baseless.  

Answer 9

I don't know - they should receive the same punishment. The court system is and has always been set up by men who believe that women are so meek and mild that they could never be equal in the accomplishments of men whether good or horrific.

Answer 10

Can you cite some stats to show this is true? I haven't seen any proof.  In addition far fewer females engage in any sorts of violence compared to males.

And women who kill their spouses have been shown to have been abused for years before they do this. So there is some justification for their killing.  

My question is why doesn't society find a way to end male violence against women since there is so much of it?

Answer 11

As far as statutory rape, they don't.

In 2005, Debra Lafave was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 7 years probation for statutory rape.

Also in 2005, Pamela Rogers was sentenced to 9 months in prison and 7 years and 3 months probation for statutory rape.  In 2006, she was sentenced to 9 years in prison for violating her probation.

In 1997, Mary Kay Letourneau was sentenced to 7 years and 5 months in prison for statutory rape.  This is one case where it certainly could be argued that the victim "wanted it", since he married her less than a year after her release.

In 1993, Joseph Buttafuoco was sentenced to 4 months in prison for statutory rape.

Women are often punished more harshly for murder, too.