In almost every society men are the ones who are overwhelmingly involved in wars, in all kinds of intergroup aggressions and intragroup homicide; they mobilize themselves in armies of violent fans, incriminal gangs, in bands of thugs, etc.
These observations are as old as the world and have allowed us to create a clear distinction between male and female sexes regarding their predisposition to violence. Wars are a biosocial product of men and a field for male’s manifestation [Goldstein, 2001]. The same thing is true of crime and cruelty, which are closely linked to masculinity.
It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world's homicides and start all of the wars.
1- Area Where Women Outnumber Men
In areas where men outnumber women, there were lower rates of murders and assaults as well as fewer sex-related crimes, such as rapes, sex offences and prostitution. Conversely, higher rates of these crimes occurred in areas where there were more women than men.
High proportions of men in certain areas of the country correlated with fewer crime rates – even when accounting for other potential contributing factors such as poverty.Also, when women are in short supply, men are more dutiful to win and retain a/their partner. With an abundance of women, men are spoilt for choice and adopt more promiscuous behaviour that brings them into conflict with other men, and more likely to commit sex-related offences and they exhibit more violent traits or behaviour and less likely to invest in offspring.
2-Boys Are Less Care For Before They Become Men.
Boys are given less care and support, from everyone in the family and in society, and they are abused far more than girls, so by the time they are three years of age they become twice as violent as girls.
While mothers may sometimes dominate their little girls and expect them to share their emotional problems, they distance their boys by not making contact with them and expect them to “be a man.” This begins from birth: “Over the first three months of life, a baby girl’s skills in eye contact and mutual facial gazing will increase by over 400 percent, whereas facial gazing skills in a boy during this time will not increase at all.
Boys grow up with less attachment strengths because careful studies show that mothers look at their boys less, because both parents hit their boys two or three times as much as they do their girls, because boys are at much higher risk than girls for serious violence against them, and because boys are continuously told to be “tough,” not to be a soft or weakling.
3- The Male Brain Has A Killer Gene
About about 90% of killers in America are male almost correlate with other countries. And about 30% of males – compared to 9% of females – have a form of the MAO-A gene often called the “warrior gene” because of its association with violence.That gene has been found to impair “their ability to deal effectively and pro-socially with stressful situations”. The research doesn't mean all male commit commit crime or are more violent. It only show male are more prone to commit crime or violent than female. Some male population are highly susceptible to it.
4- Influence Of Testosterone
It might also be because males often view aggressive acts as an exercise in control over others, brought on by a challenge to their self-esteem or integrity. Men are more likely to view their aggressive acts as positive. Women feel more guilt and concern after being aggressive than men.
The another biological reason that can be suggested is that, men have higher levels o testosterone. It is a predominantly male sex hormone that women have too, although in much smaller amounts.
Testosterone is responsible for our aggressive sex drive. It is also our ‘warmone,’ triggering aggression, competitiveness, and even violence.” Physical and social conditions produce changes around this average level.
Testosterone levels are related to criminality and violence. While there is no direct tie between testosterone and human criminality, there is an indirect tie.Testosterone leads toward violence, and violence is often criminal.
5- Male View Of Aggression As Dominant Quality To Boost Self-Esteem
It might also be because males often view aggressive acts as an exercise in control over others, brought on by a challenge to their self-esteem or integrity. Men are more likely to view their aggressive acts as positive.
Women feel more guilt and concern after being aggressive than men.
Some researchers have suggested that females are not necessarily less aggressive, but that they tend to show their aggression in more covert and less physical ways (e.g., Passive-aggressive behavior). For example, females may display more verbal aggression. Then again most of the violent acts committed by women go unreported.
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