CRM 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Correctional Service Of Canada, Defamatory Libel, Public Intoxication
4 Apr 2017
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Women living in the system psy-ence & control . Psychiatric & therapeutic control of women: the pathologization of. Transgressing the norms of womanhood: charlotte ross . Charlotte ross was actually there for murder. She challenged the system and called into question the people involved as mental health staff and system. Included those considered unfit to stand trial, or not guilty by reason of insanity, or transferred from prison because of mental disorder. Only 6 were charged with or convicted of murder. Non-violent offences included vagrancy (9), public intoxication, incorrigibility, defamatory libel, public nudity, and causing a disturbance: directly violated gender-identity standards of mind and action, dominant images of docile, responsible sane womanhood. Socially and sexually: risk, resistance, and the unruly. Trying to make sense of carceral and transcarceral care". The number of women with mental health issues has increased 61% since 1997 (barret, allenby & taylor 2010: 21)
