In her 2013 essay “The longest war,” historian and feminist writer Rebecca Solnit wrote about how the one factor that overwhelmingly connects violent crimes - that the perpetrators are male - is so often overlooked: “Instead, we hear that American men commit murder-suicides, at the rate of about 12 a week, because the economy is bad, though they also do it when the economy is good; or that those men in India murdered the bus rider because the poor resent the rich, while other rapes in India are explained by how the rich exploit the poor… The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all... It’s rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible: ‘Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behaviour.’” What she writes equally applies to non-violent crimes.