Crime always will be a serious issue in society. When one hears reports of a crime on the news or in the newspaper, what is the first image that comes to mind? While many may swear on being gender neutral, the stigma is that men are generally the sole proprietors of criminal activities. That, however, is not true, as our knowledge on the issues of crime and its relationship with gender has broadened greatly due to the increases of studies over the past several decades. Many articles support the argument that a crime gender gap is extremely existent and it should be deemed worldwide or universal. The study of the relationship between the two has been an important area for the nature of gender discrepancies and has resulted in conveying patterns
