Männlichen Opfern wird mehr Mitschuld an einem Verbrechen gegeben

Wenn man in der Fachliteratur zur Geschlechterforschung recherchiert, stellt man immer wieder fest, dass auch Gedanken der Männerrechtsbewegung ganz allmählich darin einfließen. So finde ich beispielsweise heute morgen in Linda Mealeys akademischem Fachbuch Sex Differences. Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies die folgenden Passagen:

Discrimination Against Men
Discrimination against women does not preclude simultaneous discrimination against men. Although jobs held predominantly by men, on average, pay more than those held predominantly by women, men are routinely expected to take jobs that expose workers to toxic chemicals, excessive heat, dangerous machinery and overly long work shifts. Compare those individuals who clean hotel rooms (called "maids," reflecting the female predominance) with those who clean schools, hospitals, and streets (called "janitors", and who are, more often than not, men). While both may do "comparable work," the latter are exposed to more discomforts and risks. In general, the circumstances of female-dominated occupations tend to be more comfortable and to entail fewer risks to health and body than those of male-dominated occupations.
One consequence of sex-related job assortment is that 90% of work-related deaths are of men (cited in Browne, 1995). In the United States, a construction worker dies on the job somewhere, on average, every hour of every working day (cited in Farrell, 1993). This has led masculinist psychologist and author Warren Farrell to pronounce, that men are, more often than women, "treated like objects". Men, he says, are treated as "the disposable sex" (Farrell, 1993).

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Because people draw from stereotypes to inform their actions, the association of crime and violence with men leads to discrimination in systems of justice. Jury simulation studies, for example show that male defendants are more likely to be presumed guilty than are female defendants and that defendants are treated more harshly when the victim is female (Mazzella & Feingold, 1994). One recent study showed that even when they are the victim, men are more likely than women to be percieved as at least partly culpable for the occurrence of a crime (Lindholm & Christiansen, 1998).

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Eine Zusammenfassung der letzgenannten Studie steht auch online:

This research examined two aspects of gender effects in eyewitness accounts: whether there are gender differences in memory for a violent crime and how gender of perpetrator/victim affect witnesses' evaluations of perpetrator/victim behavior. Eighty male and 84 female university students saw a film showing a simulated manslaughter with either a male or female perpetrator stabbing a male or female victim. A female advantage was found in overall memory of the crime, and both a male perpetrator and a male victim were assigned more culpability than their female counterparts.

Dass männliche Täter für ein und dasselbe Verbrechen härter bestraft werden als Frauen, habe ich hier auf Genderama bereits thematisiert. Die letztgenante Untersuchung kannte ich noch nicht, wiewohl sie natürlich das widerspiegelt, was wir über das Verhalten der Ermittlungsbehörden bei Fällen häuslicher Gewalt wissen.