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| Women engaging in deviant or criminal behavior are viewed as ... |
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| depraved and morally corrupt |
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| In colonial America, men could be punished for not ... |
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| keeping their wives in check |
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| Elizabeth Fry dedicated herself to ... |
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| improvement of prison conditions for women |
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| Women prisoners in England and America... |
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| were not seperate from the men |
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| Dorothea Dix, Abby Hopper Gibbons, Mary Wistar and Sarah Doremus |
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- all led several campaigns to improve the conditions of confinement for women
- insited that women inmates be looked after soley by women gaurds
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| the purpose of incarcerating woment was to promote... |
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| a sense of femininity and the encourage "lady like" attitude and behavior |
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| Women inmate jobs refected |
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sex-role stereotypes
-sewing, cooking, cleaning, spinning |
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| White women were usually sent to |
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| reformatories - less harsh and promoted optimism toward reform |
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| African American women were usually sent to |
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| custodial institutions - older inmates and convicted of more serious crimes |
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| Michael Foucault views punshment from the ... |
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| perspective of power (as it relates to discipline) |
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| Jose Ingenieros modified whose criminology? |
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| the gender divide in Argentina was reinforced by tensions between the ... |
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| local catholic church and the state |
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In Argentina men were sent to ...
women were sent to ... |
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men: state-of-the-art correctional insitutions
women: facilities that were under the firm control o a religious order |
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| what did the nuns of the Good Shepard do? |
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gained control of prisons for women from 1890 to 1970
- trained women staff to work and live with the inmates |
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| Lomborosian criminology said that women succumb to crime due to |
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| moral weakness, irrationality and low intelligence |
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Patronado de Recluidas y Liberadas
-group from the University of Buenos Aires |
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| campaigned to extend legal protection and improved care for female inmates |
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| the ideas and concepts driving criminology are constructed... |
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| Van de Warker proposed ... |
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| women enter into crime to get attention from men |
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| Lombroso and Ferrero applied Darwins theory of natural selection. What is their idea of natural selection in this context? |
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| criminal women do not reproduce because their unattractive physical traits prevent men from pursuing them sexually |
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| the theory of social determinism... |
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| advocated sterilization and lengthy periods of confinement for female offenders so they would not bread future criminals |
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| the theory of negative influence... |
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| "weak" women were viewed sympathetically as being unable to take control over their own lives leaving them vulnerable to the manipulation of "bad" men |
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| some observers assume that womem are prone to violent "acting out" behavior and other forms of deviant behavior during critical stages of their ...? |
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| menstrual cycle (aka PMS) |
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| what is the percentage of women in the US penal population? |
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| 7% - more than 105,250 women in prison (2008) |
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| hispanic women count for about 1 in every ___ women in state prison |
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| Co-Corrections means . . . |
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housing both men and women (low-risk and non-violent)
working together, schooling together, recreation together |
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| William Wilbanks takes a stand agaisnt racism by saying ... |
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| i take the position that the perception of the criminal justice system as racist is a myth |
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-9 african americam boys fight on a train
-get arrested
-two women accuse them of raping them
-8 of the 9 are found guilty and sentenced to death
-on appeals they were freed from death sentence due to a violation of their 14th amendment
-eventually got freed |
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| defended the Scottsboro boys on appeal and got them out of death due to a violation of their 14th amendment |
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| the use of race as a key factor in police decisions to stop and interrogate citizens |
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| African American inmates are subject to ... |
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| more cell searches and denied passes that permit them to move freely throughout the prison |
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| Scott Christianson observes ... |
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| not only have the prisons gotten bigger, but they've gotten blacker |
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| Steven Spitzers idea of social dynamite ... |
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| perceptions that a certain segment of the population, namely young minority males, is particularly menacing |
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| Steffenmeier documented that ... |
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| young, black males are subject to the harshest prison terms |
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| the Patterson and Lynch study suggest that ... |
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| discrimination does not always emerge in the form of harsher treatment of a particular group but rather as favoritism to another |
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-accused of beating a white guard to death
-denied having anything to do with the beating
-said the guards handpicked them due to their black activism
-charges were dropped
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was one of the Soledad Brothers
wrote a book about his life as a black American
was shot and killed by a white gaurd who said Jackson was trying to escape
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| Angela Davis was part of what group and what did she do? |
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Black Panther Party
waged a campaign of support for the defendents of the Soledad Brothers |
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| Steffensmeier and demuth discovered what about hispanic defendents? |
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| hispanic defendents are the defendent subgroup that is at risk for the harshest penalties |
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| Hispanics are normally prone to sterotypes like |
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| lazy, irresponsible and prone to crime and gang activity |
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| hispanics are a huge target for what law-enforcement campaign? |
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| African American females are more likely than white females to ... |
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| turn to street crime out of a sense for survival |
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| Rosebaum discovered that African American women were... |
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| sentenced to longer incarceraton periods than white, asain, latino, ect women |
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| What is the JJDP Act and what does it do? |
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Juvenile justice and delinquency prevention
each state had to determine the extent of the problem and demonstrate measures to reduce it where it exists |
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| a turbulent reaction to a social problem |
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women is raped by 7 teenagers while on her job
soon became known as wilding - sexual violence commited by a group of urban teens |
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