@article{ref1,
title="Female violence and gender gap trends in Taiwan: offender-behavioral changes or net-widening enforcement explanations?",
journal="Feminist criminology",
year="2018",
author="Hsieh, Ming-Li and Schwartz, Jennifer",
volume="13",
number="1",
pages="28-58",
abstract="Two long-standing explanations of converging violence gender gap trends in the United States are net-widening enforcement and offender-behavioral changes. We examine these explanations in an Asian context, democratic Taiwan. We use sex-specific arrests, conviction, and imprisonment statistics for violent offenses, 1989 to 2012, to identify whether Taiwanese gender gaps are converging across the criminal justice system. This study did not identify a female violent crime &quot;wave&quot; but mainly stability, failing to support the offender-behavioral change hypothesis. There is limited evidence of net-widening enforcement of felony assault and domestic violence, where disparate impacts on female arrest trends are identified solely for domestic violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1557-0851",
doi="10.1177/1557085115626798",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085115626798"
}