Secondary Resource Process Sheet

Source 8
Type: Website
Bibliography Information:
Leavy, Shane. "The Harvest." Does Justice System Discriminate against Men? Blogspot, 13 Jan. 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
Author or Editor: Shane Leavy
Name of magazine, book, etc: Not Listed
Title of article: Does Justice System Discriminate against Men?
Publishing Co: Blogspot
City: Not Listed
Year: 2011
Internet address:
http://shaneleavy.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-justice-system-discriminate.html
Summary:
Age and sex profiling are essentially universal: police rarely stop women or old men; young males are favored. The
reason is simple. Statistics in all countries show that a young man is much more likely to have engaged in criminal acts,
particularly violent acts, than a woman or an older man. The same argument is sometimes advanced for racial profiling,
stopping African-American drivers, or airline passengers of Arab appearance, more frequently than whites or Asians, for
example, but in this context it is politically controversial. Obvious examples are using the felony murder rule and a past
record of violent crime in considering the death sentence, both of which are more likely to put a man on death row than
a woman, albeit perhaps for good reason. The second source of differential treatment may be subconscious, but
certainly it is not benign. Examples here are assumptions that women who kill are more likely than men who kill to have
been acting under emotional disturbance or under the domination of their co-felons.
Why is this source important?
This source is important because it directly explains the gender bias in the law system.