95% of the UK’s prison population are men. Since 1997 the Director of the Prison Reform Trust has been a woman. Hmm, how might that have impacted on the Trust’s campaigning?

Thanks Peter. The justice system in the UK – and across much of the developed world, from what I gather – has applied this double standard for at least a century, as we’ve reported in many areas. The feminist narrative is this. Men are intrinsically bad/evil so when men do bad/evil things, they’re only being gender-typical. Women aren’t bad/evil so when women do bad/evil things, there must be other explanations – typically mental health issues following abuse by men (the evil ones, after all). Bad/evil women are invariably held to be untypical of their gender.

When you look at a number of crimes it gets worse. Women will typically get away with wrecking many men’s lives with demonstrably false rape allegations before the justice system will consider charging them with the offence. Paternity fraud (attempted and realised) has long been a criminal offence in the UK. The CSA alone learns of 500+ cases every year – when men dispute women’s claims they’re the biological fathers of individual children – yet not one woman has ever been convicted of the crime in the UK. In many areas (domestic violence and sexual abuse of children come to mind) women are FAR less likely than men to be charged, far less likely to be incarcerated, and if they are incarcerated they’ll serve much lighter sentences, and in much less grim conditions. In the eyes of the law women are held barely more accountable for their actions and inactions than young children. Is it any wonder that many women respond as any class which knows it’s above the law would act?