Why do humans with testicles commit so much crime?
We're the expendable sex. Most desperate, risky and dangerous acts are dominated by men for this reason - our deaths, even en masse, are not as expensive, there is not much loss of the ability to reproduce. That is likely to change for us as a species, because reproduction isn't much of a challenge for us anymore; the selective pressures to enforce this difference no longer exist.
It is obviously a liberal media conspiracy, ovaries are proven to cause much more violence
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There's still selective pressure because there's still a very wide difference in number of grandkids per individual. Selection = differential reproductive success, and there's still differential reproductive success.
However, I agree that it's going to change in Western societies because, with the advent of deadbeat-father laws and genetic testing, men can no longer reproduce without consequences to their ability to support future offspring. After birth, men now have to contribute closer to as significantly to their offspring as women do, and this greater cost will eventually mean that men become more selective in choosing mates.
Still exists yes but it has changed. Also numbers do not define success. Else tadpoles would rule the world. Success is defined through genetic longevity alone.
Still exists yes but it has changed. Also numbers do not define success. Else tadpoles would rule the world. Success is defined through genetic longevity alone.
Arrested, Convicted, Charged, yes definitely. Committed, questionable, per the full range of what is identified as crime per society.
More aggressive, yes per androgen influence it is an empirically testable hypothesis, but there are many crimes, defined as such in society, that do not require a tremendous amount of aggression or strength. Intelligence, and minimal physical effort, is all that is required, in some cases.
Physical violence, man against women and women against man per domestic abuse in the US, is cause for arrest of either individual, but the cultural norm, well before "Gone with the Wind" and the famous slap across the face, has been somewhat socially acceptable for a women to assault a man given culturally appropriate circumstances, in the US.
And, generally speaking, it's not part of the cultural norm for a male to call the cops when assaulted by a women. So even in this area, where biology would provide evidence that a male would likely be more aggressive than a female, in committing the crime in question, there are cultural penalties for assaulting a women or complaining about being assaulted by a women that move well beyond biology and enforcement of laws as they exist, defining the behavior as a crime.
Testicles get a vote in the issue from birth, but culture has a voice in the issue as well, that speaks louder than the testicles in some cases.
Cultural comments on teachers having sex with their underage male students, are often presented by the male majority as a good thing rather than a bad thing, whereas if the genders are changed, there is not only legal penalties to pay, but strong cultural penalties as well per society as a whole.
The question becomes one of how often the crime goes unreported, if aspects of culture provide a medal of honor for the first behavior for the role of the victim, that has the same legal penalties as the second behavior.
Domestic violence and sexual abuse, are two stereotypical crimes attributed by most, as a male gender specific crime, but there is no measure for the crimes that go unreported, per cultural factors that keep people silent.
The premise that humans with testicles commit the most crimes, at least in the US per the complex legal code that exists, is speculative at best. People commit crimes on a daily basis that have no idea that legal code exists that define the behavior as a crime. Yet, they are still held responsible for the crimes, if arrested and convicted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_crime
Studies find that males are incarcerated for crimes more often than females. This is particularly true for violent crimes.
Further information: Crime in the United States
In the United States, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women yet women are just as likely to commit a crime as men.
Apparently Wiki doesn't agree with the premise of the Op. At least not in the US.
It appears they have overstepped their boundaries in this statement, though, since they clearly indicate in the previous paragraph that the hypothesis has yet to be successfully proven, that overall, men commit more crimes than women. It also hasn't been empirically proven, overall, that the likely-hood is the same or less.
There are some women whom are convicted of hundreds of crimes in their lives and many men that are convicted of none during the course of their entire life, some who likely have fairly large testicles, and are smart enough not to break the law and/or to get caught.
There is a pretty good overall incentive not to break it, when there is a good chance of getting in trouble. Per that factor the odds aren't always the same between the genders, given the entire spectrum of crimes per legal code, in a country like the US.
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