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The survey was conducted with 40 participants with 28 of the participants being female and 12 being male. The numbers break down to reveal that 70% of participants were female and the other 30% were male.

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The survey was conducted among a younger crowd from the ages of 18 to 24. A few outliers were older than the majority of participants.

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The idea behind the phrasing of "naturally violent" is to distinguish whether participants believe that there is a gender that is more biologically predisposed to violence. The use of the word "naturally" is very intentional because natural has roots in biology and biological tendencies. 70% of participants said that they believed that males were more naturally violent which aligns with current research. Research shows that testosterone plays a major role in decision making for males and can take over in an instant when it comes to tense and complex situations (Marano 3). Testosterone plays a major role in male development and also comes into play on a daily basis in how men think and respond to outside stimuli.

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This question was an integral component of the research of gender a crime because the results reveal that a majority of participants, which equates to approximately 67.5%, believed that males were more often portrayed as antagonists in movies, books, and on TV. This reveals that society in general holds the belief that men are more capable of violence, wrongdoing, discord, and generally antagonistic behavior. Typically, societal beliefs result from observed trends throughout the years. If there is a general societal belief that males are more commonly antagonistic then there must be a trend in general male behavior that supports the belief.

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This question is the focus for the thesis that males are more naturally prone to commit crime or antisocial misconduct (Foner and Garraty 1). Research already proves that males are 3.5 times more likely to commit crime but that is not general knowledge (Marano 4). The question was included to investigate whether participants perceived a drastic difference in the crime rates between males and females in society today. 75% of participants responded that they believed males were more prone to committing while the other 25% answered that both were just as prone. The point of interest is that none of the participants responded that females were more prone to commit crime. This supports the idea that males are socially and biologically seen as more violent and aggressive.

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The idea of an impulse is a psychological concept. Participants responded and 57.5% of them said that they believed that males were more impulsive than females which supports the thesis that males are more impulsive and thus more likely to commit crime. Males are more impulsive because the corpus callosum, the part of the brain responsible for communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain is smaller than in females. The left brain is responsible for rationality and logic while the right is responsible for intuition and emotion. Since the male corpus callosum is smaller the nerves cannot communicate between the two brains as efficiently as in females leading to left brain dominated decisions which are generally impulsive. It is known that males typically engage their left brain more than their right which means they exhibit a more one-track mind than females (Begley 3).

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The question was designed to determine whether participants believed that crime could be looked at as a momentary lapse of judgement or a fault in a conscious train of thought. The survey showed that a majority or 80% of participants believed that the committing of crime truly depends on circumstance. The answer thus cannot be used to truly support the research behind the thesis that males are more prone to commit crime in both a social and biological sense. Had the majority of participants answered that crime was a result of impulse the results could have been used to support the thesis; research shows that males process information with their left brain more often than the right and the two hemispheres do not communicate as much as in the female brain which leads to more impulsive decisions without analyzing emotional consequences (Begley 2).

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The idea of perceived gender roles is based in how society treats the differences between men and women. 92.5% of participants answered that they believed that there are perceived gender roles that influence the way men and women are treated on a daily basis from the workplace, in the home, and even at the government level. The male role in society is traditionally seen as the protector and provider and this comes into play with the Male-Warrior Hypothesis. The hypothesis asserts that the male gender role leads males to take more risks to protect the group they identify with (Van Vugt 1). The results of the survey support that gender roles do exist in society and the next question analyzes their influence on crime or at least their perceived influence on crime.

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This question is the conclusive question of the survey because it bridges the answers from the rest of the questions into one final, decisive statement. 75% of participants responded that perceived gender roles influence crime, play a role in who commits crime, and influence the motives of criminals. This asserts that the differences between males and females is now deeply rooted in the structure of society because they are evident in the study of criminology. Crime is punishable by law and is looked at a major detractor from a person overall. If gender roles and their influence are evident in the lowest circle of human behavior, crime, then they must also be evident in every other circumstance which makes perceived gender roles influential on a the global social scale. The survey results support that male perceived gender roles lead them to commit more crime than females in relation to the Male-Warrior hypothesis and that males are more prone to commit crime in order to benefit the group they identify with (Van Vugt 4).