Reddit reviews Women and Punishment

I started out here, which are just notes from a course:
http://www.slideshare.net/mattyp99/cjs-bias-towards-or-against-women

Then I followed some of the references, finding things like this:
http://www.academia.edu/2573801/Gender_and_Crime_in_Oxford_Handbook_of_Criminology_2012_

Also this is referenced, but I can't actually read the book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Punishment-The-Struggle-Justice/dp/1903240573

From what references say, the assertion is that women are sentenced for being bad at being women in some conventional sense vs being sentenced just for the crime committed. It works both ways, though, because women who have kids or a husband that speaks well of them get gentler punishments. I'm not sure where those stats come from.

I was able to eventually get to this article, that asserts that punishments are increasing while actual violence is going down:
http://cmc.sagepub.com/content/2/1/29.abstract


This whole direction could be quite biased, though. I think the whole thing is part of the "chivalry principle" which comes up a lot. The idea is essentially that women are seen as less capable as men, and therefore judged less harshly if they remain being seen as feminine. Punishments increase not due to increased crime, but decreased perception of feminity.