2006-09-16 04:59:50 · 6 answers · asked by OOO! I know! I know! 5 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
So it's another one of those "boy things" (as in "He's just being a boy.")?! Man, am I glad that I am a woman!
2006-09-16 05:10:48 · update #1
It doesn't just seem that way, it is that way. Testosterone is part of it, but so is the way that we are socialized. Other contributing factors are chivalry hypothesis and definitions of crime. Female criminality is on the rise, but is it because women are changing, or more that we are creating more laws, and making certain activites "criminal".
2006-09-16 05:17:38 · answer #1 · answered by bikerbun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men are more likely to take risks. Crime, on average, doesn't pay and always carries a risk (the risk of being caught, plus the risk of a dud haul -- breaking into a house with no valuables, for example). But it is alluring (to some) -- when successful, the short-term rewards seem good.
I notice, watching Millionnaire, how more ready men are to gamble. Women contestants are much more likely than men to 'ask the audience' when they say they think they know or they're 90% sure of the answer. When couples play, it's nearly always the woman who is more hesitant than the man.
Similarly, how many women day-traders on the stock market are there? How many women do you see in a typical branch of Ladbrokes? How many women-pioneered exploring expeditions have there been?
I imagine it goes back to the long (2 million years) hunter-gatherer stage of human evolution. Man, usually the principal hunter, takes risks to catch prey. Woman, usually the principal gatherer, takes many fewer risks to pick fruit.
Besides, again speaking evolutionarily rather than for today, man needs to think only for adult safety, his own and that of his fellow-man on his (hunting) team. Woman, the child-nurturer, needs to think protectively for herself and her vulnerable children. Safety first.
2006-09-16 05:59:21 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they do commit way more crimes than women, especially violent crimes. There seems to be a link between crime and the Y chromosome. In men that have two Y chromosomes instead of one (it's a genetic abnormality), they are much more likely to commit crimes and especially violent ones.
2006-09-16 05:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by deadwoodfan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Testosterone.
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2006-09-16 05:04:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all started when this one woman took this fruit from a certain tree and ate it then gave it to this certain man who ate it....
2006-09-16 05:22:06 · answer #5 · answered by Delta Charlie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Women just don't get caught
2006-09-16 05:23:56 · answer #6 · answered by GARRY M 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋