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erika · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

An alternative approach in examining the gender gap in violent offending is looking at victimization rates. Such research has concluded that

A) there is no real change in women's violent offending rates.
B) any narrowing of the gap can be attributed to the fact that males' violent offending decreased more than females' violent offending did.
C) There is no support for the argument that progress toward equality and independence for women has led to convergence in offending rates between men and women.
D) all of the above

Question 2

Traditionally, criminological research on women focused on

A) their crime rates relative to those of men.
B) prostitution.
C) the similarity between women's and men's crimes.
D) the depravity of violent women.
E) all of the above, except C