TY - JOUR AU - Estrada, Felipe AU - Nilsson, Anders AU - Bäckman, Olof PY - 2017/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The gender gap in crime is decreasing, but who’s growing equal to whom? JF - Sociologisk Forskning JA - SoFo VL - 54 IS - 4 SE - Artiklar DO - 10.37062/sf.54.18236 UR - https://sociologiskforskning.se/sf/article/view/18236 SP - 359-363 AB - <p>The declining gender gap in crime, observed in many Western countries, including Sweden, is often interpreted as showing an alarming shift in the offending of young women. Explanations to the observed pattern are often based on an assumption that women are increasingly coming to mimic the criminal behaviour of men, while we in this essay argue that to the extent behavioural change is at play, it is rather the other way around: men mimic women’s behaviour.</p> ER -