irc wrote:I'd be interested if you had a source for that.
The chart of page 13 at
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... s-2013.pdf... shows that for offenders sentenced for indictable offences at all courts in 2013 28% of men got immediate custody while for woman it was 15%.
The next chart below shows that for various offences men got on average longer sentences.
The source was my memory of something I saw once, and I admit my memory is increasingly faulty. The difficulty lies in comparing outcomes for equivalent seriousness of offences: the source I have a vague memory was when comparing like with like, because even within the class of people convicted of ABH, there are wide variations in seriousness of the offence, and offences committed by women are likely to be on average substantially less serious.
The following text preceding Fig 6.08 of your source suggests that there may be something behind what I remembered. This part of the report is considering adjustments to sentence for indicators of seriousness. There we see, within public order and assault offences, women are on average given rather smaller discounts to sentence for indicators of lower seriousness of offence (though for indicators of greater serious there is no clear difference). Clearly the last sentence of the extract is not inconsistent with this, because it cat be that on average the seriousness was much lower.
"For assault and public order offences, where factors associated with reduced seriousness, lesser harm and lower culpability had been ticked, the custody rate was lower than the overall custody rate. The custody rate was higher than the overall custody rate for those with factors associated with increased seriousness, greater harm and higher culpability ticked on their form.
For most factors relating to reduced seriousness, the difference between the custody rate for each factor and the overall custody rate was larger for males than females. For example, the custody rate for females who were the sole/primary carer to dependent relatives had a custody rate that was 12 percentage points lower than the overall custody rate, whereas the custody rate for males was 29 percentage points lower. However, the custody rate for males was still higher than the custody rate for females overall."