A case in point is the State of Maryland. Jon Ryan, our committee chairman on gender bias in the courts, reviewed the raw data and compared it to what the commission said they had found. What Jon found in the draft of the report were conclusions blatantly unsupported by the commissions own raw data. Jon was able to review the raw data, so he tabulated the number of times that inaccuracies were presented. The reverse is almost never true.
Men draw longer sentences than women for the same crime.
A woman is more likely than a man to be placed on probation and not be sent to jail. And, then, of course, there is the whole issue of the awarding of child custody. For some five years NCFM sponsored its own fact finding task force and produced original research. The research from this committee is available. The date was November 14, 1997.