WMNST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Binary, Embezzlement, Private Prison
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Focus on women"s behavior to explain their incarceration rather than government actions that seek to control poor communities. Focus on gender expense of race and class. Women of color, globalization, and the politics of incarceration by. Macro and global level factors: effects of globalization on national economies, expansion of prison industry as a pro t-making business (prison industrial complex, the war on drugs . Freda adler: women"s liberation movement: acces to white collar jobs and embezzlement, more assertive, enable to engage in violence, bulglary, organized crime, acts that were previously in the domain of men. !1: leads us to look at women"s behavior for explanations, women must be committing more crimes. Radical framework: we should look at the shifting actions to the state as it seeks to control poor communities and communities of color. Treatment programs and community service were effectively barred in cases involving drugs, and sentence length related not to the role of the defendant.
