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Crime Has A Gender: How Male Violence Drains Public Resources - Elsacat - Oct 13 2025
https://worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/crime-has-a-gender-how-male-violence-drains-public-resources/
https://archive.ph/tbOJm
Quote:There is also another asymmetry, one that rarely gets acknowledged. While billions are spent containing male violence, the immense value of invisible care work, carried out overwhelmingly by women, is almost completely ignored. In Italy, according to the ILO, women devote an average of more than five hours a day to unpaid care and assistance, compared to just one hour and 48 minutes for men. This labor is vital to the functioning of society, yet it is excluded from GDP calculations and recognized, if at all, only as a “natural vocation.”
And yet gender remains conspicuously absent from political debate. Some parties focus obsessively on the ethnic background of offenders, while no one dares point out the most glaring fact of all: the overwhelming majority of criminals are men.
RE: Crime Has A Gender: How Male Violence Drains Public Resources - Clover - Oct 13 2025
Quote:In 2024, women in prison made up just 4.3% of the Italian inmate population, while men accounted for 95.8%.
In Italy, in 2021, 151,860 women were arrested or charged, representing 18.3% of the total, while 679,277 men were arrested or charged, making up 81.7% of those prosecuted that year.
Quote:When it comes to homicide, the gap becomes a chasm: 93.9 percent of those charged are men, and in 2023, 93 percent of people killed by their partners were women. Rape? 98.1 percent of perpetrators are men. Only in road-related crimes is there near gender parity, with a difference of around 1%.
For property crimes such as burglary, the female share rises to 20.2%, yet remains a minority. And the imbalance extends beyond violent crime to economic, political, and cybercrime. Either women are far better at avoiding detection, or we are facing a colossal problem.
(Just quoting statistics because I think they're important.)
Quote:The challenge is not to “re-educate people” but to imagine a different way for males to inhabit in the world. A new relational grammar rooted in complexity, care, listening, and a form of strength defined not by domination, but by the ability to sustain relationships that are non-hierarchical. It’s not just a political issue, it’s economical: we would all be richer if men behaved more like women.
Hell yeah to the bolded part.
RE: Crime Has A Gender: How Male Violence Drains Public Resources - Elsacat - Oct 14 2025
In the U.S., we're already seeing what happens when you try to drag a government and a country back to patriarchal, domination/domineering, aggressive, stereotypically male ways of thinking and operating. It's backwards. It's violent. It creates unrest, it disrupts standards of living for the worst.