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28 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj28 and id is 1 raw text is: Women & Criminal Justice, 28:1-18, 2018 Routiedge Copyright ( Taylor & Francis Group, LLC T [Routledge ISSN: 0897-4454 print/1541-0323 online 8 Taylor&Francis Group DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2016.1250700 Discretion and the Sex Dyad: Exploring the Interactive Effects of Offender and Victim Sex on Reporting and Arrest of One-on-One Assaultive Crime Karen G. Weiss Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Lynn A. Addington Department of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University, Washington, DC, USA James J. Nolan Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Gender has been hypothesized to affect how violent offenders are treated within the criminal justice system, but studies have tended to ignore the role of the victim in decision making. This study explores the interactive effects of offender and victim sex (i.e., the sex dyad) on reporting and arrest of one-on-one assaultive crime. Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and National Incident-Based Reporting System, findings show that male-on-female offenses are reported to police more often than other dyads, but female-on-male offenses result in more arrests. Meanwhile, female-on-female offenses result in fewer arrests, despite nonsignificant differences in reporting. Implications of findings for theory and future research on gender discretion are discussed. Keywords: arrest, gender discretion, NCVS, NIBRS, reporting to police, sex dyad, violent crime DISCRETION AND THE SEX DYAD Gender is hypothesized to affect how female offenders are treated within the criminal justice system based on perceptions of what serious crime and dangerous offenders look like.' One view, the chivalry perspective, predicts that female offenders are treated more leniently than males due to the perception that they are not as dangerous, blameworthy, or even capable of inflicting serious physical harm (Belknap, 2015; Daly, 1994; Farnsworth & Teske, 1995; Herzog & Oreg, 2008). A second view, often referred to as the evil women perspective, predicts that female offenders receive harsher treatment due to the perception that women who commit crime, Correspondence should be sent to Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. E-mail: Karen.weiss@mail.wvu.edu

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