The bar chart illustrate the proportion of male and female being arrested by offence type
Overall, violence against person has the highest percentage of male and female. While robbery has the smallest amout of females being arrested for the crime and
It could be see that females tend to have a higher rate of being arrested by offence than male. Violence agaisnt the person is the offence type which accounted for the highest share in both genders, over 30% for males and around 34% for females. The theft and handling stolen goods take the second place for the offence type that females are most arrested for which take up over 30% of females but only 20% of males. Fraud and forgery has the smallest percent of males and females commiting the crime with more than 3% for males and over 4% for females.
Turning to the crimes which has a higher rate of males commiting than females. Robbery with about more than 3,5% of males and only over 2% of females, burglary with over 7% of males and only more than 3% of females. For criminal and damage, drug offences and other offences, the percent of males commiting is mostly 3% – 4% higher than female