Women tend to have fewer prior offenses than men and are less likely to commit crimes again.
What concerns me is the success that defense lawyers have in portraying accused women as victims of society and of men. Scheck honed his skills well before building his case for Woodward or even O.J. Simpson. Scheck successfully portrayed Nussbaum as an innocent victim despite her tolerating years of child abuse by her husband, Joel Steinberg, and her own severe neglect of little Lisa. All charges were dropped against the mother. This is where feminists get caught in a quandary.