Michigan State professor says trends in criminal justice system evidence of 'war on women'

Michigan State professor says trends in criminal justice system evidence of 'war on women' | MLive.com:
EAST LANSING, MI — Arrest rates for men are decreasing while rates for women increase, leading one Michigan State University researcher to say the justice system is chipping away at women's rights.
Christina DeJong, associate professor of criminal justice at MSU, performed a study analyzing federal crime data from 1993 to 2012 and found arrest rates for men decreased 12.5 percent while arrest rates for women jumped 26.7 percent.
For violent crimes, arrest rates for men were down 13.5 percent and for women up 53.2 percent, DeJong found.
She said it's unlikely women became more criminal or more violent during that time frame and instead pointed toward changing police practices and dual arrest policies — where police arrest both people involved in a domestic violence incident — as reasons for the increase.
"This is particularly troubling," the study stated, "given that much of the domestic violence committed by women consists of acts of self-defense."