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Theft in the Daily Dispatch & Richmond Dispatch, 1900 & 1920

Gender of Those Involved and or Affected By Theft

The assumption on gender in theft cases is that its men stealing from primarily other men, but does this hold up with the results? The results indicate that of the discernable genders that men are primarily the ones committing theft and men are getting stolen from the most, but the split isn't to far off in terms of men getting stolen from versus women getting stolen from. Indeed man on man is the most common form of theft, but women seemingly are as common of victims as men are.  Although it is hard to comment on this on my end since a lot of names indicate a certain gender, but since they don't say the gender I can't report the gender, though the cases that do report gender make it quite clear that the common suggestion of what genders are doing the stealing and what genders are getting stolen from is correct.