If only there was a study which explained this... or maybe an "internet search engine" where you could find references. I'll summarize for the lazy: taking eve

If only there was a study which explained this... or maybe an "internet search engine" where you could find references. I'll summarize for the lazy: taking everything else into account, men get 63% longer sentences for the same crime than women do. If you look at crimes: http://law.jrank.org/pages/1250/Gender-Crime-Differences-between-male-female-offending-patterns.html http://law.jrank.org/pages/1250/Gender-Crime-Differences-bet... About 80% are committed by men. But 93% of inmates are men: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende... There are any number of explanations for this. The most honest and rational explanations don't involve making men "bad" and women "good".