Sociology 3358F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homicide, So Wrong, Dangerous Offender
21 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Medications are another form of disciplinary power used to control women, In prison theres an overuse of psycotropic drugs to sedate and if you cant sedate you isolate. Mastr plan to provide psychiatric services for federal prisoners but no mention of women yet 95 percent of women in prison have some mental or psychiatric issue. Emphasis on mental illness and psychological disorder. Opportunities to reform provided by prison authorities. But if the women didn(cid:495)t take the opp to go to rehab then they were penalized so really not free choice. Onus on prisoner to take advantage responcibilization of the prison they need to take responcibility for their health. It is a legal term, rarely women are given this term first female to get this term is marlene moore. Another female dangerous offender is lisa nebb. Served time at healing lodge for robbery but she challenged the alberta superior courts and the overturned it.
