CRM 1001 Lecture Notes - Sentencing Project, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Marxist Feminism
Document Summary
Criticizing traditional theory for focusing primarily on men. Applying contemporary feminist theories to the issue of crime. Examining women"s experiences with crime and the legal system. How women are represented in the legal system!!! Exploration of women as subjects of their own lives and how criminal behavior can be rooted in gendered social problems. Men commit more crimes, more violent crimes, and more varied criminal acts. Women intend to engage in more minor crimes; financial or property crimes. Others that account for women"s crime data are drug use, drug selling, and sex work. Women"s incarceration in the united states increased by over 700% between 1980 and 2019. Black women are 2x as likely to be incarcerated as white women; hispanic women are 1. 4x as likely. Over half (58%) of women in prison are mothers, as are 80% of women in jails. Rates of previous trauma/violence are extremely high among incarcerated women.
