The claim that women receive harsher sentences is highly emotive, this is then used to manipulate. There also has been a move to close female prisons.

One thing I have noticed is how quickly the emotion around an event escalates and is highly exaggerated. Case in point, Rowan Baxter set fire to his wife and children, now in the media advocates are claiming that men who are being accused of Domestic Violence are using the threat of burning the victim alive.

Yet at the same time, the advocates ignore situations where mothers have set fire to their own children.