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I believe that in our society women are held to different more lenient standards then men, mainly because they are viewed as nurturers, caretakers and the thought of them being violent and evil is not something that society is ready to accept. Women have been killing their husbands for centuries, as we see in Lisa Downing’s, Murder in the Feminine article, where she talks about several women who committed murder such as, Marie Lafarge and Marie Fortune. I believe there are gender biases in the judicial system, when a man kills someone or commits some sort of violent, heinous crime he is made out to be a monster, a person who must be removed from society immediately, sometimes even by execution. If a women were to commit the same crime, she would not be labeled a monster by all right away, people would begin to examine the reasons why she committed the crime. No one wants to come out and flat out say she’s a violent murdered who should be executed for her crimes! People start to attribute her acts to her childhood, various forms of abuse she suffered, and things like that, while trying to circumvent the fact that she in fact did commit this crime.  In the clip that I am going to show, How likely are women to commit violent acts an expert criminal intelligence analyst goes to say, what I already believe, which is that there are plenty of women out there who can kill, steal, shoot, gang bang, sell drugs, and commit any violent and brutal act as well if not better then any man could and I feel they should be prosecuted equally and accordingly.