LCL 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Due Process, Criminal Type, Inquisitorial System
10 Oct 2017
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Works with womens in prison around their needs. Historical look at construction of motherhood criminalization. Suggests that when people are supported in relationship, it lowers reoffending rate: prepare people for release. 14 prison: 1 full female prison, 1 both female and male. Irish const in 1937, article 40. 2-confirmed and cemented oppression: mothers place is within the home! Policy and legislation financially supor the mother to stay home- (cid:374)o (cid:862)real(cid:863) suppo(cid:396)t fo(cid:396) (cid:272)hild (cid:272)a(cid:396)e . Catholicism=no sex before marriage/exposed by pregnancy and child birth=unmariried mother the epitome of social and political deviance. Deviant women: legislative instruments that worked with catholic church. State responsible for 26. 5% referrals to magdalen laundries: other 75, women put theirself in. 1960- only 4 prison in ireland: 2 accommodate women, approx. 1 in every 100 locked up in various religiously ran organization. 2/3 of immigrants in mid 20t c were women, mainly because they were pregnant (and single) Violence/sensationalist depictions sold papers and fed non reflective shit.
