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Heidelberg "Women are more idealistic and therefore less violent than men" - Heidelberg researchers studied the reasons for gender differences in violence.

women oriented much more strongly than men to idealistic values and therefore much less prone to violent crime. This is the result of an investigation at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Heidelberg. While more particularly younger men as women strive for quick success and high living standards for women have values such as tolerance or social engagement is more important. "The more important but idealistic values for one person, the greater their willingness to accept rules of law that prohibit violence - and the greater the acceptance of these standards is, the less likely that person is violent," Heidelberg says the scientist Prof. Dr. Dieter Hermann. The fact that women in violent crime, a lower rate than men, is, according to Prof. Hermann empirical evidence, the reasons for the differences are so far but does not explain enough. In Germany, for example, only two percent of the prisoners who were convicted of assault, female. To find out how can we explain the gender gap in violent crime, the scientists interviewed in 2009 about 1,600 randomly selected people aged 14 to 70 years in Heidelberg. This study confirmed and differentiated, a model of a previous has carried out investigation, Prof. Hermann on this subject in 1998 with 3,000 people between 14 and 70 years.

The scientist differs in its latest survey of four different categories of values. In addition to religious values, there are idealistic values, examples of which include environmentally-conscious behavior or independent life and action. In the hedonistic, materialistic area include the desire for a life full of pleasure, rapid professional success, or the quest to be clever and cunning than others. As a post-traditional values are, for example, hard work and ambition. The sexes differ in the survey results of Prof. Hermann especially the importance of idealistic value orientations in women at any age, but especially at a young age, are more pronounced than in men. The more important those values are but one person, the more likely reject this violence. "The gender has a direct influence and indirect influence on the importance of religious, idealistic, hedonistic, materialistic and post-traditional values, these values and attitudes towards violence, prohibitive rules", said Prof. Hermann. "In particular, people with idealistic values are more willing to accept rules that prohibit the use of force - and affects women more often than men, "

original publication
D. Hermann. Gender differences in the acceptance of violence. A replication study. In: Trauma and Violence, 5 Volume, issue 01/2011, p. 44 - 53

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