Criminals

After reading over my notes from the past few classes, I started to wonder about something that Rousseau said. He believed that women could never be as moral as men, and that they should be trained to be. While I feel that hardly anyone would actually agree with him, it got me thinking about criminals. The majority of the criminals in prison today are males. If males are supposed to be "more moral" than females, then why are there more male criminals than female criminals?

JS Mill said that men deal more with the abstract than the emotional, and women vice-versa. So then, why do more men commit crimes in this country than women? I believe that it is because women DO deal more with emotions, and thus can look at the emotional consequences of their actions before they do something. But that would also be implying that men cannot do that, which I do not believe to be true. It is very puzzling to me. Maybe women are more concerned/busy with the private sphere (family, kids, friends, homes, etc) to even think about committing a crime?

I am not sure. All I know is that if Rousseau were right then more women than men would be in jail. Obviously this is not the case, and in fact is the opposite...so are women more moral than men? Or do men just act more on criminal impulse, etc than women?