| When you compare male and female prisoners they are so different. The only thing they have in common is that they are in prison. A female prisoner is usually tend to internalize stress. In when this is happening in their life this is when cutting, burning, or some type of self harming begins. Unlike for males who would bond as team which lead to like a prison gang in the prison.
Timothy J Gallant HUS318/SSC318: Adolescence, Sub Abuse & Crimi (Summer 2013) Women Behind Bars Silja J.A. Talvi UMA Campus 7/1/2013 The book influenced my opinion on women in prison because; I learned that the incarceration of at risk women does nothing to help them but does everything to help damage our American society and infrastructure. It should be a matter of great concern that almost two and a half million children have a parent in prison. This confounding statistic points to a growing normalization of correctional supervision and the forced dependency it perpetuates. Moreover, these children are set up for failure because of the denied access to federal benefits many of their mothers will incur due to the
After the creation of these drugs and the closure of psychiatric wards, people stopped taking their drugs, and the effects of their illnesses, treatment was not received, and their behaviors deteriorated. Thus, crimes were committed, and inmate population increased. These inmates are more likely than any other type of inmate to have behavioral issues. As of 2005 there were 1,255,700 mentally ill inmates recorded within our state and federal prisons (Seiter, 2011). * According to Seiter (2011), in 2004 drug dependence or abuse criteria in the State prison was met by 40.3% of inmates and in Federal prison systems was met by 48.6%.
This causes problems for them to get lawyers as well as get out of jail. When you have no money you have to get an appointed lawyer. Minorities tend to be unstable causing them not to own there on home. Owning your own home could help with getting you out of prison. With all of these types of disadvantages on their side they tend to receive more time than non-minorities.
For example, women now go out to work, just as men now help with housework and childcare. However Feminists reject the ‘March of Progress’ theory, and argue that women remain unequal within the family. Anne Oakley argues that we still live in a patriarchal (male dominated) society, and therefore women occupy a subordinate and dependant role within the family and wider society. In addition in Mary Boulton’s research backed this, she found that fewer than 20% of husbands had a majority role in childcare. Overall it could therefore be argued that rather than partners becoming more equal, women now have to carry a ‘dual burden’, whereby she is responsible for two jobs of unpaid or paid labour.
The relationship between substance abuse and physical and sexual abuse is well documented, and there is evidence that women prisoners are likely to have experienced extreme mental, sexual, and physical abuse as well as exploitation. A recent survey of 258 newly incarcerated women at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City found that women who reported ever having been physically and sexually abused were significantly more likely to abuse drugs and reported extremes of violence. Women inmates often had been abused by more than one partner. In addition, prisoners may have minimized the abuse they reported, because some incidents the researchers considered abusive were not considered abuse by the women themselves, who rationalized the assaults against
Some of the techniques used by some prisons are to have counseling service (Trulson et al., 2008) for gang members. This is to try to get into the mind of the gang member to see how they can break them of gang life and dependence. Keeping very aggressive gang members in the same prison (Carlson and Garrett, 2008) is an alternative as well. Studies have shown that aggressive prisoners seldom prey upon those inmates that are aggressive as well. A constant threat of violence between inmates could ultimately cause them to cease being aggressive and violent.
In addition to facing the stark reality of our mistaken reliance on longer sentences as a deterrent, we also need to acknowledge that the kind of treatment criminals receive from the state can affect their subsequent conduct. In other words, some rehabilitation programs - inside and outside of prison walls - do work.” Georgia, a state traditionally known for tough sentences and tough judges, has instituted a program of ''intensive probation supervision'' as an alternative to incarceration. Preliminary reports indicate that the recidivism rate for offenders placed in this program is far lower than that of their counterparts who go to prison. Texas, New Hampshire and California have recently enacted similar programs. The rationale for these programs is partly fiscal - it costs far less to
Many believe that criminals should be treated cruel, but are they not being punished enough by being in prison? They no longer get to have privacy, their families, or careers and education. How far do you go before you feel that it is unacceptable? Should the prisoners not be treated as human beings? According to the eighth amendment they should.
It is said that individuals who have these traits may have parents with the same traits. But not all individuals who turn to crime are from broken home homes, some are from homes with supportive parents. Parenting affects a child’s temperament and is inter-related in important ways to include harsh physical discipline, parental supervision, and antisocial attitudes. Parenting plays an important role in the development of antisocial behavior. At an early age boys tend to be more aggressive than girls, due to the ability to socialize being easier for girls than for boys thereby, creating gender difference in antisocial behavior.