According to the 2015 uniform crime report (ucr) data, women accounted for _____

Innocent victim - No responsibility for the crime attributed to the victim.
Ex: Institutionalized victims, the mentally ill, children, or those who are attacked while unconscious

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Voluntary victim - Victim and offender equally responsible for a crime.
Ex: Victim pays prostitute for sex; then prostitute robs victim.

Victim who is more guilty than the offender - victim who provokes or induces another to commit a crime
Ex: Burning bed syndrome: victim is killed by the domestic partner he abused for years.

Victim who is alone is guilty - Victim who is solely responsible for his or her own victimization
Ex: An attacker who is killed in self-defense; suicide bomber killed by detonation of explosives.

Imaginary victim - Victim mistakenly believes she or he has been victimized.
Ex: Mentally ill person who reports imagined victimization as real event.

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Offense charged	Number of persons arrested	Percent male	Percent female	Percent distribution1
Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
TOTAL	8,305,919	6,067,584	2,238,335	73.1	26.9	100.0	100.0	100.0
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	8,533	7,549	984	88.5	11.5	0.1	0.1	*
Rape2	17,504	16,990	514	97.1	2.9	0.2	0.3	*
Robbery	73,230	62,721	10,509	85.6	14.4	0.9	1.0	0.5
Aggravated assault	288,815	221,993	66,822	76.9	23.1	3.5	3.7	3.0
Burglary	166,609	135,064	31,545	81.1	18.9	2.0	2.2	1.4
Larceny-theft	900,077	511,557	388,520	56.8	43.2	10.8	8.4	17.4
Motor vehicle theft	59,831	47,169	12,662	78.8	21.2	0.7	0.8	0.6
Arson	6,802	5,460	1,342	80.3	19.7	0.1	0.1	0.1
Violent crime3	388,082	309,253	78,829	79.7	20.3	4.7	5.1	3.5
Property crime3	1,133,319	699,250	434,069	61.7	38.3	13.6	11.5	19.4
Other assaults	831,684	598,000	233,684	71.9	28.1	10.0	9.9	10.4
Forgery and counterfeiting	42,681	27,596	15,085	64.7	35.3	0.5	0.5	0.7
Fraud	102,339	62,721	39,618	61.3	38.7	1.2	1.0	1.8
Embezzlement	12,247	6,093	6,154	49.8	50.2	0.1	0.1	0.3
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing	68,341	53,621	14,720	78.5	21.5	0.8	0.9	0.7
Vandalism	147,191	115,695	31,496	78.6	21.4	1.8	1.9	1.4
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc.	111,316	101,366	9,950	91.1	8.9	1.3	1.7	0.4
Prostitution and commercialized vice	31,534	11,355	20,179	36.0	64.0	0.4	0.2	0.9
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	39,393	36,361	3,032	92.3	7.7	0.5	0.6	0.1
Drug abuse violations	1,144,021	886,022	257,999	77.4	22.6	13.8	14.6	11.5
Gambling	3,607	2,883	724	79.9	20.1	*	*	*
Offenses against the family and children	72,418	51,598	20,820	71.3	28.7	0.9	0.9	0.9
Driving under the influence	833,833	625,927	207,906	75.1	24.9	10.0	10.3	9.3
Liquor laws	204,665	145,238	59,427	71.0	29.0	2.5	2.4	2.7
Drunkenness	314,856	253,565	61,291	80.5	19.5	3.8	4.2	2.7
Disorderly conduct	298,253	214,118	84,135	71.8	28.2	3.6	3.5	3.8
Vagrancy	19,414	15,080	4,334	77.7	22.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
All other offenses (except traffic)	2,471,772	1,826,711	645,061	73.9	26.1	29.8	30.1	28.8
Suspicion	1,045	802	243	76.7	23.3	*	*	*
Curfew and loitering law violations	33,908	24,329	9,579	71.8	28.2	0.4	0.4	0.4

1 Because of rounding, the percentages may not add to 100.0.
2 The rape figures in this table are aggregate totals of the data submitted based on both the legacy and revised Uniform Crime Reporting definitions.
3 Violent crimes are offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
* Less than one-tenth of 1 percent.

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In 2015, 73.1 percent of all arrestees were males. Males accounted for 79.7 percent of persons arrested for violent crimes and for 61.7 percent of persons arrested for property crimes.

Males comprised 88.5 percent of persons arrested for murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in 2015.

Of the total number of persons arrested for drug abuse violations, 77.4 percent were males.

Females accounted for 43.2 percent of all persons arrested for larceny-theft offenses in 2015.

Of persons arrested for aggravated assault in 2015, 23.1 percent were females.

Of persons arrested for driving under the influence, 24.9 percent were females.

Which of the following is said to be one of the greatest contributions of feminist criminology?

One of the greatest contributions of feminist criminology is the acknowledgment of the relationship between victimiza- tion and offending. Research has consistently illustrated that a history of victimization of women is a common factor for many women offenders.

When did the first Feminist criminologists gain attention?

In summary, feminist criminological thought gained prominence during the highly political era of the 1960s and 1970s. At first, the field focused on the missing information on girls and women in criminological scholarship.