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(6,801 posts) Sat Oct 13, 2012, 12:29 PM Oct 2012

Men Sentenced To Longer Prison Terms Than Women For Same Crimes, Study Says [View all]

If you're a convicted criminal, the best thing you can have going for you might be your gender.

A new study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan, found that men are given much higher sentences than women convicted of the same crimes in federal court.

The study found that men receive sentences that are 63 percent higher, on average, than their female counterparts.

Starr also found that females arrested for a crime are also significantly more likely to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742.html

Male-privilege.

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Men Sentenced To Longer Prison Terms Than Women For Same Crimes, Study Says [View all] 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 OP

So on average, a woman caught smoking a joint will get 40 years in prison, and a man will get 50. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #1

I think they looked at other things 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #2

I know, i just get frustrated with the fact that we fill our prisons with nonviolent drug offenders. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #3

There's no telling what mischief cancer-granny could get in to 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #4

This is not new information Major Nikon Oct 2012 #5

It is interesting 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #6

The idea of "male privilege" is intellectually dishonest Major Nikon Oct 2012 #7

Agree. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #8

Healthwise black women are privileged compared to white men 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #10

It also doesn't seem to require any sort of evidence 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #9

Such is the case with much of feminist "theory" Major Nikon Oct 2012 #11