%0 Journal Article
%T Female Violence and Gender Gap Trends in Taiwan: Offender
%A Jennifer Schwartz
%A Ming-Li Hsieh
%J Feminist Criminology
%@ 1557-086X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1557085115626798
%X 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 ˇ°waveˇ± 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
%K female
%K violence
%K crime trends
%K gender gap
%K gender convergence
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557085115626798