(Britain) Violence takes over from shoplifting as the crime women most often commit


Article FYI...

http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ uk/crime/ article4432458. ece

The Times (Britain)
31 July 2008

Violence takes over from shoplifting as the crime women most often commit
By Richard Ford, Home Correspondent

Violence has for the first time overtaken shoplifting as the most common
crime by women, according to annual statistics released yesterday.

During 2006-07 the number of women detained for violent offences reached
87,000 ­ an increase of 11 per cent on the previous year. The number
arrested for theft and handling stolen goods was 80,000, down 6,400 on the
previous year.

The number of women held for robbery also rose, from 4,100 in 2005-06, to
4,400 in 2006-07, appearing to reflect a growing trend of violence by women.

An increase in young girls and women being arrested for violent attacks
occurred in every age group, from 10-17, 18-20 and 21 and over. Overall,
the number of women arrested for violent offences has more than doubled in
eight years.

The figures, which were released by the Ministry of Justice, show that the
largest increase in arrests of both men and women was in the category of
violence against the person.

The emergence of a “ladette” culture, linked to excessive alcohol
consumption, has been blamed for violence by women. One criminologist said
yesterday: “These figures suggest something significant is happening.”

The increase could, however, be a result of changing police practices, in
particular the need to meet a government target in 2007-08 of securing
convictions for more than 1.2 million offences. This has been achieved.
Criminologists and some officers have said that the target has encouraged
police to focus on “easy pickings” resulting from disorder on the streets.

There has been a steady rise in the number of women arrested for violence
against the person since the turn of the century, when the figure stood at
37,100. This year the Youth Justice Board said that violent attacks by
girls aged between 10 and 17 had risen by 50 per cent over the past three
years.

The board has ordered a study into offending by girls in this age category.
Its initial findings suggest that the rise is linked to an involvement of
the police in incidents that in the past would have been dealt with in
schools or by other community figures of authority.

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Only outdoors with strangers though. They are never violent at home with people they know.

Now we know it....easy pickings...women are not more violent, but they are harassed by the police, which consider them as 'easy pickings'...'poor girls between 10 and 17 years old...

lol, I can back this article up. The store my mom works out often has these old women (and younger women alike) shoplifting all over the place. And then when they get caught, they scream some ludicrous accusation. You have no idea what kind of women my mom puts up with. Then again, some of you probably do, lol.