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Yes. The foundational text examining the gender gap in the modern criminal justice system (in the United States) is Sonja Starr's 'Gender gaps in criminal sentencing.'

Feminists actually have the gall to claim that women receive harsher sentences for the same crimes as men (Mona Eltahawy makes this argument in her book), but Starr did the definitive study in 2013. I'm sure it's even worse now.

There are moves all the time to prevent women from going to jail at all, even for murder. Julie Bindel and her lesbian partner Harriet Wistrich (or perhaps mainly Wistrich) run an organization in England that strives to free female murderers. Usually, I believe, the claim is that the woman was an abuse victim. Men, of course, no matter how abused, are never justified in murdering women.

Dec 17, 2022
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