I answered the following questions and want to know what you think or what I could add to.

1. What are the international issues surrounding gender based violence?

2. Based on the readings regarding the nature of female offending, do you think there are differences between male and female offenses, if so what are they?

3. What are some of the theoretical perspectives regarding female offending?

There many International issues surrounding gender based violence such as human trafficking,femicide, and genital mutilation. Human trafficking is thesecond largest criminal activities and women are being manipulated, abused, andexploited. victims areforced to work in strip clubs, sex clubs, and appear in pornographicfilms. Traffickers so methods and Psychological manipulation to always have control over their victims. Femicide is a sex based hate crime term, defined as "the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female". Genital mutilation purpose is to protect girls virginity and as well eliminating the potential for sexual pleasure. which isa violation of girls' and women's fundamental human rights.

Males are naturally more physically and emotionally aggressive and which they commit more aggressive crimes than females. Women commit a crime because of past experience with violence and abuse during their formative years.It'swhy I think there is differences between male and female offenses. Men trend to do moreserious anddangerous crimes such as murdering someone to getsomething they wanted,psychically abuse someone, sexually abuse, and be aggressive towards people. while when it comes to a women their crimes aren't aggressive they get into alcohol use, drug use and lastly prostitution to support their basic survival needs such as food and shelter.

Macro theories of criminal behavior explain the "big picture" ofcrime across the world or across a society. The theory explore the large scalesocial explanation of a crime such as a poverty and community disorganization. A micro theory is one which focuses on individuals and small groups and the interactions between them, rather than focusing on large structures, patterns and conflicts across the whole of society.