Factors Contributing to Gender Disparity

is a in the current world in almost all parts of the world even though it has not been in use for a long time. The word was invented by Edwin H. Sutherland an American criminologist while giving his speech in a meeting of the American Sociological Society. Sutherland explained that there is a difference between crimes committed by people of high social status and people of low social status. The same idea is identified in his definition for the same since he as a crime committed by a person of high respectability and a person of high social status in the course of his occupation (Benson & Simpson, 2009 pp. 5). Further studies explain that the definition excludes all upper-class crimes that are not committed in course of someones occupation. Gender plays a big role since the number of women committing such crimes is different from the number of men. In that case, this that contribute to gender disparity in .