NCJ Number
95810
Date Published
1983
Length
44 pages
Annotation
This study compares criminality patterns for males and females in the United States and in Illinois for 1970-1980 to determine whether the patterns have remained constant or changed.
Abstract
The number of females arrested for Index crimes has increased between 1970 and 1980, and this increase is not only absolute, but also relative. This increase is due largely to increases in arrests for larceny-theft, which accounted for 83 percent of the increase in female Index arrests nationally, and for 93 percent of the increase in Illinois. The proportion of females arrested for violent Index offenses has remained relatively constant; males continue to compose 90 percent or more of those arrested for violent Index crimes, both nationally and in Illinois. Five figures, 12 tables, and a 25-item bibliography are included.