This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...committed by women, yet we must not overlook the fact that women are kept from conflicts to a much larger extent because of their work at home and their domestic seclusion. The act of which persons are often falsely accused is a sexual attack, and the victims of such false accusations are frequently clergymen and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...committed by women, yet we must not overlook the fact that women are kept from conflicts to a much larger extent because of their work at home and their domestic seclusion. The act of which persons are often falsely accused is a sexual attack, and the victims of such false accusations are frequently clergymen and physicians. The accusation is not always a pure invention; sometimes hysterical delusions and misunderstood pathological sensations are at the bottom of it. It occasionally happens that such an accusation is made after narcosis or hypnotism, when only the presence of a second person can protect the physician. On the whole, it may be said that women's crimes bear rather the character of insincerity, those of men of brutality. We have reason to be glad that the number of convictions, compared with the total number of responsible women, shows but an inconsiderable increase, 15% less, in fact, than the increase in the convictions of male individuals in two decades (Table XXXII). The importance of this stagnation in women's criminality must not be underestimated; above all, because of the economic significance that an accumulation of female convictions would have. This fact seems to me still more telling as a proof that women's greater participation in economic competition does not mean greater criminal danger. Embezzlement, fraud, receiving stolen goods, have all decreased, in spite of the fact that more and more women are engaged in industrial and commercial life or as working women. The geographical distribution also shows us that the industrial districts are, for the most part, below the average, as regards women's criminality.1 It is not the work in factories and shops that produces crime, but its accompaniments, especially the taking part in amuse...
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