ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sexual Misconduct, Subculture

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: Gaines

Document Summary

Female offenders are incarcerated in 98 confinement facilities and 93 facilities that house men and women separately. Seem less committed to the inmate code. Types of social relationships among female offenders. Adopted various roles and interacted as a unit. Permit individuals to act according to clearly defined roles. Prisoners for women are now and rules. Personal relationships have less stable and less familial than in the past. Majority of people wished to avoid the mix. Engage in bad behavior and reduces chances of good time. Most studies have been conducted in single-sex institutions. Over half of male inmates but only a third of female inmates are serving time for violent offenses. There is less violence in prisons for women. Women show greater responsiveness to prison programs. Men"s prison populations are divided by security level, women"s populations are mixed. Men tend to segregate by race, not women.