SOCIOL 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intersectionality, 18 Months, Embezzlement
7 Nov 2016
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Pathways research: interviews (most often, trauma; abuse; drug use. Incarcerated women: mental health = 73% of women vs. roughly 50% of men, 8/10 have been physically or sexually abused, higher rates of drug use, higher hiv rates (6% women vs. 1% men) Critique of feminist perspective: ignores intersectionality, mainly looks at white, middle-class women, employment a lot of black women have not had opportunity to stay. Gender roles/sex roles home and not work: societal expectations, for men, toughness , boys will be boys = trouble dismissed, young girls time is monitored more than boys, less normative for women to commit crime/act out. Female sex offenders: viewed much differently than male sex offenders. Media portrayal of women and crime: attractiveness = major news stories tend to focus on women"s attractiveness, seriousness = downplayed by media. Soc 3410: prison families , do not see gangs, unique to women"s prisons, play distinct roles just like in normal families.
