Suseonline,

The whole tone of your angry response to the OP fits the definition of violence. It is personal abuse.

It could easily escalate into physical violence, but usually the violence waged by women, especially against other women is cruel and derogatory, as evidenced by your reply. It is an example of the girl on girl bullying seen in schools and extending to the use of Facebook and other social media, that is proving so difficult to stop. As well, any attempt by other girls to intercede to calm the situation can make them victims of attacks as well. Girls usually operate as gangs in brutalising their victims.

Violence needs to be researched in the broad, independently, nationally and as a coordinated campaign.

Individual,

I'm not sure if the physical assault rate is out
of control - but we're certainly aware of it
happening in our cities due to the media coverage
that it attracts.

The high involvement of youth
in these attacks has been attributed to - alcohol
and drug abuse, poor education, and unemployment.

Much of the violence appears random, mindless,
wantonly malign, and even psychopatic. The reasons
offered by the perpetrators often run along the
lines of, "He insulted me," or "He pushed me."
Most of the people commiting these violent crimes
seem to be between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.

Drug addiction is certainly a significant factor in
many of these crimes. Addicts have to find large sums
of money to support their habits, and they frequently
turn to crime to do so.

Few people believe that imprisonment does the offender
any good, rather it is used as a last resort measure
of punishing criminals and protecting society from them.

Experts argue that society should waste little energy on
imprisoning petty offenders for whom other forms of
correction - like probation or community service might
be more appropriate, and should concentrate instead on
incapacitating dangerous and persistent offenders by
locking them up - if necessary, for very long periods.

As one expert points out, the best deterrence is not
necessarily the most severe punishment, rather it is
punihsment that is "swift" and "certain," and if there
is little doubt that it will follow, the crime rate
will be low. But if people think they may escape
punishment indefinitely, then the sanctions will have a
much less deterrent effect.

OTB,
Female criminals will often rob, assault and stand over elderly people, also ask a prison officer who has worked in both male and female prisons which set of inmates are harder to manage,a former officer I know worked at male prisons for over a decade with no issues of stress or burnout, after only a year working in a women's prison this person was effectively finished as an officer, ended up on sick leave with PTSD and was eventually let go from the service.

Here's some interesting data released by the
Australian Bureau of Statistics:

Female prisoners have increased at a rate 21 times higher
than the number of male prisoners since 2011.
Females now make up 7 per cent of Australia's total
prisoner population. The NT has the highest imprisonment
rate in the country (826 per 100,000 adults) followed by
WA (267 per 100,000).

Most common offences for sentenced males were acts intended
to cause injury (17 per cent) and sexual assault (15 per cent).

While for females the most common were illicit drug offences
(17 per cent) and acts intended to caus injury (14 per cent).

The medium age was 33.9 for males and 34.6 for females.
Eight in ten prisoners were born in Australia and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people comprised
just over one quarter (27 per cent) of the total prisoner
population.

Over half (55 per cent) of all prisoners had served a
sentence in an adult prison prior to the current episode.

Indy we have our verbal wrestling matches you and I.
Looked in this morning,could have been third post here.
Then read your DIATRIBE to Suseonline.
Did you want to say that.
Do you think her question do not matter?
I thought they did.
And think you have difficulty's understanding, others are able to have views.
Your thread, until your blast, had a real chance of being a long one.
Apart from your quaint and constant wish to impose martial law, sorry national service, you are in part right.
Some thing is quite wrong here.
Is it in part the way they got bought up.
Is the costs of imprisonment stopping thugs being put off the street.
I would like you Indy to consider this.
IF your outburst to a women, was on the street not here would I be right in saying you should be spoken to by police be OK in your view?

Dear Belly,

I'm sure that Suse, as well as I, appreciate
your gracious act of coming to her defence.

Many of us have been abused in the most disgusting
and personal terms, but that just goes with the
territory these days. Often the chance of having
a sensible, thoughtful, intelligent discussion
is lost. And when being attacked it's a great
temptation to retaliate - (when the right
buttons are pushed). This spoils things for
everyone, as we all well know.