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It is culture. Actually science on violence and aggression tend to show a bit different picture, and also why such statistics is of such a low value. Good resea
by belorn 4y ago
It is culture. Actually science on violence and aggression tend to show a bit different picture, and also why such statistics is of such a low value. Good research tend to explore the null hypothesis and alternative explanation for statistical results.
A common used data point is that men commit most violent crimes. Using the same data from Sweden one can also say that today Muslim are 20 times more likely per person to commit rape than Christians, and about similar likely per person to commit murder. Same numbers can also be used to replace Muslims and Christians with immigrants and natives, or Arab and Germanics. For social scientists that data wouldn't be hugely interesting, as they would look towards social economic status and war refugee status (i.e. things related to PTSD injuries). The conclusions would more likely be that there are a bigger tendency for anti-social behavior by people with minimal social connections and economical destitute, especially if they experience severe emotional trauma.
One fairly interesting statistics to me is that households with either man-woman, man-man, and woman-woman all have equal rate of violent behavior. Statistically that is to me much more interesting. If men inherently had more violent behavior and women less violent behavior, man-man and woman-woman household should show a difference in violence. It also a rather strange statistical phenomenon that if a bisexual woman go from a heterosexual relation into a homosexual relation, her statistical data for violent behavior increases by 200%. A man who does the same decrease his violent behavior by half. Why would that be if there existed a biological difference in violent behavior?
- Llamamoe 4y agoOne claim I've seen is that men commit more violent crime because it's more common for a man to be physically stronger than another person, while the rates of non-physial violence are much closer across gender boundaries.
- xp84 4y ago> non-physial violence Come again? What's non-physical violence? Mental violence? Writing someone a mean letter?
- DaveExeter 4y agoProxy violence. https://youtu.be/W0FByIEijXI?t=22 https://youtu.be/W0FByIEijXI?t=22
- icefo 4y agoYou can inflict extreme pain on someone by just talking without raising a finger nor your voice. Especially if this person cares about you. It can be voluntary or not but dismissing it like that seems strange to me. It's not because it doesn't leave physical scars that it can't cause trauma.
- honkler 4y ago"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."
- belorn 4y agoThat is one theory I also suspect but I have yet to see a study that look at physically strength during conflicts between people. If it is true then among homosexual relationships the person with less physical strength should be detectable when looking at who is the attacker and who is the victim. It might also be non-linear. A person who has half the strength of their partner might be significant less likely to be the attacker than if a person has just 10% less physical strength. It would be an interesting read.
- Llamamoe 4y agoI think things change a lot when a dynamic is already established, and involves boundaries being pushed and probed, rather than being "crimes of opportunity" so to call them.
- belorn 4y agoBased on the data it seems that the rate of conflict is a human constant. Two women living together will have a lower average absolute strength than two men living together, but from the data the rate of domestic abuse is identical. Similar, the strength difference in a heterosexual relationship is going to be greater than homosexual, and yet again the rate of domestic abuse is again identical to homosexual relationships. It seems that the only thing that changes with gender is that when there is a conflict and it "eventually" develops into physical attacks, which is a strange concept in itself, the person who will be the attacker (or at least be found guilty in courts) will be significantly more likely to be a man if the relationship is heterosexual.