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Stephen Collins

Men (particularly, as responses are needed) of my acquaintance, but frankly anyone: the daughter of a colleague of mine is studying gender and stereotypes for a personal interest project for her Year 12 studies and needs responses to a short (it took me about 15 minutes) survey on crime and gender (particularly masculine) stereotypes.

With her permission, I am posting the link (Google Form). If you choose to respond, I encourage you to treat it with the seriousness it deserves. She's clearly doing something interesting here and might learn some very big things.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXFcg_ySqihJ7skLNPCfsb9tKSWm9cEm9wl-1UwBLABZ780g/viewform

The Masculinisation of Crime

This questionnaire is being conducted for a Year 12 Personal Interest Project for Society and Culture. The aim of this investigation is to explore how the news media’s framing of female and male offenders influences public perception and social change. This questionnaire will focus on gender stereotypes, media influence and social changes in gender equality. This questionnaire may contain questions regarding sensitive or triggering topics skip any questions you are not comfortable answering. All responses from this questionnaire are anonymous and no personal details will be shared. This questionnaire should take approximately 10-15 minutes. Thank you for your time and participation.

Google Docs

Stephen Collins Mar 1

For those following along: she now has more male respondents than females, so some female perspectives would be appreciated.

Also, are any of my loose ties out there professionally or academically involved in criminology, gender aspects to crime, and particularly how masculinity affects crime statistics? A connection would be useful for the young woman doing her research.

Emma Davidson Mar 1

@trib this report that I worked on before I accidentally became Minister for Corrections and Justice Health specifically talks about women and criminogenic pathways in the ACT. https://womenshealthmatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-stories-of-ACT-Women-in-prison.pdf

Stephen Collins Mar 1

@emmadavidson thank you, Emma.

butterscotch Mar 1

@trib done!

Paul McEwan Mar 1

@butterscotch @trib Also done.

PonderStibbons Feb 27

Boosted and done. :)

joosteto Feb 27

@trib
Should I answer yes or no here if I think feminism reduces crime?

stibbons Feb 27

@trib Well that was interesting.

eribosot Feb 27

Done.

I have some feedback about the form's wording:

"What crimes do you associate with women?"

"Associate with" sounds ambiguous to me could mean women offenders or women victims.

"Do you think the feminist movement has impacted how female offenders are depicted by the news media?"

This question has an open text field, when similar questions elsewhere has a binary yes/no answer or a five-value "strongly disagree... strongly agree" spectrum.

Paul Williams Feb 27

@eribosot @trib yep it’s obviously not written by someone who has polled before. Too many ambiguities. I’m happy to support and tried to use the open text answers to elaborate on other answers if possible.
Great that there is an effort to start (continue?) the conversation though!

Mark Connolly moved to @[email protected]Feb 27

@eribosot @trib In a part of the form after this, I clarified that women were victims of the crimes I selected.

Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲Feb 27

@trib Interesting questionnaire! I hope your friend's daughter doesn't mind me diving a bit into "the truth of factual reality" versus our opinions/beliefs that have been shaped by our environment (including media and social beliefs). Some of their questions were hard to answer because of that difficulty in what is real, and what we believe to be real.

@trib I'm feeling like the responses may tilt 'woke' with it being shared wildly on a platform like this with all us awful monsters who believe in treating people fairly and equitably and whatnot

Geoff Coffey Feb 27

@trib You're gonna throw of her results sharing this with us mastodon soy boys. Just kidding. Answered!

Mark Connolly moved to @[email protected]Feb 27

@trib @Susan_calvin Please pass along my best wishes to your colleague and their daughter. I filled out the form. Very nice!

My only comment would be that I’d be curious to know if there are differences in responses from people in Australia and people elsewhere — it might have been useful to include a basic location question? I’m in Canada.

@trib Question 4 being

"Do you understand what gender stereotyping is?"

feels like it should have a "Sure, but *do* I?" instead of being Y/N

And I get the impression this will not be the only question in the survey I have this response to

Stephen Collins Mar 2

@xethos she’s a 17yo kid in high school, so I figure we all should cut her a lot of learning slack.