Title: Are men more violent than women? | HowStuffWorks
Headings: Are men more violent than women?
Are men more violent than women?
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Content: This meant a larger percentage of men in these communities committed acts of violence than men in communities with a more balanced ratio of men to women. Why would that be? Advertisement
They suggested a few ideas that might explain this trend. One is that in communities that have more women than men, there are more cases of disruption in families. That means that there are more single-parent families -- usually families with no father. Messner and Sampson suggest that the lack of a stable family environment contributes to a culture of crime and violence, though they say that other factors are also important. It may turn out that there are some acts that men are more likely to commit than women, and vice versa. More men than women commit violent crimes like homicide and aggravated assault, but women are more likely to commit nonviolent crimes like prostitution. Whether that's because of human nature or that there's a far more complex explanation is still a mystery. Dozens of experts in various disciplines are still trying to determine the root causes of violence among men and women.