ABSTRACT
Most scholars agree that males commit more offences than females and their offences are more serious than those of females. As Nagel and Hagan put it:
Males account for the vast majority of those arrested for crimes involving force or fraud, and the victim and self-report studies support the picture. Regardless of age or type of crime male involvement is substantially higher than female. The official picture for 1992 in England and Wales was as follows.
