The pie chart shows the percentage of persons arrested in the five years ending 1994 and the bar chart shows the most recent reasons for arrest. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Information about the number of males and females arrested in a period starting from the year 1989 and ending in 1994 is presented by two pie charts in percentages.

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, the reasons for the arrests are shown by a bar chart in percentages.

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, it is noticeable that

men

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tend to get jail time more than women. The percentage of males arrested for the five-year period is 32%. In comparison, the same data for females is drastically lower at only 9%. The biggest reason for the conviction for both genders is public drinking, which accounts for the arrest of almost 40% of the women and around 30% of the

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. A dramatic difference is present in the values for drunk driving, which was the reason for over 25% of the

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's convictions.

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, the same statistic has numbers over 10% lower for the other gender. Other four reasons,

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as assault and theft, have similar values of around 15% for males and between 12% and 17% for females. Less than 5% of the

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and close to 7% of the women gave no explanation as to why they were jailed.