[extropy-chat] Re: Murderers among the sexes

[Technotranscendence]

The book was _Murder: An Analysis of Its Forms, Conditions and Causes_
by Gerhard Falk and the county in question was Erie County, NY, USA.
(BTW, this exhausts my knowledge of the subject.)

Dan

From: "Technotranscendence" <neptune at superlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:50 PM
Subject: Murderers among the sexes/was Re: [extropy-chat] Who is really
the dominant gender?


> Regarding the "murderer" rate among the sexes, several years ago I
read
> a study of muders based on all the murders that had taken place in a
> typical American county over the course of several decades.  Two
> interesting results: men were about twice as likely to be murderers
than
> women, but men were also twice as likely to be murdered.  In fact,
even
> among women killers, their victims were more likely to be men than
> women.
>
> Of course, this is based on my recollection and the limits of the
> particular study.  I'm not sure how well that holds in general,
> especially outside America or outside the time period under
> consideration.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Dan
>     See "Ust Contra Tebye" at:
> http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/Tebye1.html