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Assault in the True Northerner, 1900 & 1920

Gender and Assault

Victims: This pie chart shows the distribution of alleged victims by gender in assault stories published in The True Northerner.

Key Observations:

  • Male Victims Predominant: The largest segment of the pie chart, representing 68.6%, indicates that male individuals were the alleged victims in the majority of the reported assault cases.
  • Female Victims: Female individuals were the alleged victims in 28.6% of the cases.
  • Cases with Both Genders: A small segment, representing 2.9%, indicates cases where both female and male individuals were alleged victims.

Offenders: This pie chart presents the distribution of alleged offenders by gender in assault stories published in The True Northerner.

Key Observation:

  • Male Predominant: The chart shows a significant disparity, with males overwhelmingly represented as alleged offenders. Approximately 91.9% of the cases involved male offenders, while only 8.1% implicated females.

Language: The language for gender never changed when addressing male on male assault. However,  it did make stories more prominent when it was any other gender combination.