TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Female violence and gender gap trends in Taiwan: offender-behavioral changes or net-widening enforcement explanations?
JO  - Feminist criminology
A1  - Hsieh, Ming-Li
A1  - Schwartz, Jennifer
SP  - 28
EP  - 58
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "wave" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-0851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085115626798
ID  - ref1
ER  -