SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Good Governance, Internal Control
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Symbolic instrument of agenda manipulation inquiry reports are, of course, merely one means by which the state seeks constant renewal of hegemonic domination public inquiries are one practise amongst many in the process of reproducing specific ideological social relations . Women prisoners face discrimination on the basis of sex. Especially those housed in segregated maximum security in men s prisons. Also discrimination on the basis: of race (aboriginal and other racialized women) of disability (women with cognitive and mental disabilities) Chrc and auditor general report the chrc in particular indicated that women tend to experience segregation as rejection, abandonment, invisibility and a denial of their existence. Segregation does not further women s rehabilitation and it often jeopardizes a woman s safety and mental health by exacerbating her distress. The devastation caused by segregation was made poignantly real by a federally sentenced woman who made a submission to the commission:
