...women that serve to reaffirm the dominance of the male in society, to expose the way in which men circumscribe the intellectual growth of women. Gilman’s metaphorical presentation of daylight versus moonlight through the narrator’s analysis of the woman in the paper, who “is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” reinforces the concept of males pushing women into the dark peripheries of moonlight. The male-dominated physical world of “daylight”, reason and structure is a stark contrast to the female inner-world of night where ‘fanciful imagination’2 and disorder can run wild. Another inference of the night-time can serve to reaffirm restricting and confining women to their reproductive...
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...After reading the letters from Birmingham Prison and Prison and have the Monday class, I'm always considering the way to eliminate the discrimination. It's no doubt to say that this must undergo a long process. But how we can do more effectively? As Martin Luther King said, people should immediately engage in a nonviolent direct-action program to pursue racial justice or some other equality treatment. Why need direct action? Because this way can bring pressure and create tension in the society. People who face the discrimination need to repress emotions in nonviolent ways to avoid seeking expression through violence. Therefore, I think the proper way to eliminate discrimination is the significant thing people should think about it. In the Monday class, some classmates motioned the discrimination between men and women in China. This is the fact that in the past days China has the serious discrimination of gender because the social background and ideology. I have to say that such discrimination still exists, not only in rural but also in big city. In the rural, some people always have the old ideology that boys can do more thing than the girls. Boys should study and work and girls only need to do the housework and get married. I'm very surprise when I talk such discrimination to my friend. Her father is from a small village where most people never go outside the village. After the family members knew my friend's mom gave birth to a daughter, they were very angry and no one...
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...living in a five-star palace. Since prisons are blocked off from the public with high security and complete isolation, the gruesome conditions are left solely for the inmates to face, particularly women. Unsanitary, unbearable circumstances in women’s correctional facilities today remain something that unfortunately the public is unaware of. Whether for something minor, such as disorderly behavior, or major, such as manslaughter, the females are all under the same roof. Sexually transmitted diseases, rodents, overcrowded cells, and sewage overflows make women’s correctional facilities anything but lady-like...
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...Assess explanations for apparent gender differences in involvement in crime (21 marks) There are clear gender differences in the level of crime in society. In 2015 official statistics showed that male prison population was at 95%, with women prison population only 5%. The division in these figures may be due to several factors such as how crimes are actually recorded and the idea that males do commit more crimes that females and the male stream society that we are in. It may be believed that women commit less crime due to the socialization they received throughout their life and the social control they receive as adults. During the socialisation process it can be seen that girls are socialised differently to boys. This idea was supported by Walurm who recorder conversations in a maternity ward. Baby girls were comforted when they cried and described as sweet, whereas boys were expected to be noisy and tough. Similarly, Statham found that parents find it virtually impossible to be non sexist in child rearing. Toy shops aimed weapons for boys and domestic toys such as babies and cooking equipment at girls. This could therefore explain why men are more likely to be involved in crimes involving physical violence or possession of an offensive weapon. Additionally, Parsons believed that because child-rearing is primarily carried out by mothers, with fathers potentially being absent or having little influence in the child's life, girls have an advantage in their socialisation...
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...Female correctional facilities are treating deviant women as insane, and over-prescribing psychiatric drugs on inmates, using medication as a solution to every problem and also to quiet them down. This practice violates their human writes, not to mention the dreadful side-effects of these drugs, that cause more harm than good. Angela makes an important statement about how women who broke the law are treated as insane, and men are treated as criminal. “That is, deviant men have been constructed to as a criminal. While deviant women have been constructed as insane. Regimes that reflect this assumption continued to inform the women's prison. Psychiatric drugs continued to be distributed far more extensively to imprisoned women that to their male...
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...Culture, Race and Ethnicity Culture, Race and Ethnicity This paper will discuss the female gender in the criminal justice system profession as victims and perpetrators of crimes, with analyzing and researching gender and how it adds to the challenges in the profession. There has been a change from the time that women entered into the criminal justice profession to today. In 1845 women were known as police matrons and their job was to monitor and assist female inmates(CriminalJusticeSchoolInfo.com, 2015) Today we know these as correctional officers who still complete the same tasks by monitoring and assisting female inmate’s. It was not until 1908 that a women took the title of a female police officer (CriminalJusticeSchoolInfo.com, 2015). Through history women who wanted to enter into the profession fought for opportunities and went through struggles for women’s equality. Today female correctional officers have the same equal rights as male correctional officers. They complete the same tasks and their job descriptions are equal to one another. Both genders oversee victims and perpetrators in the criminal justice system. In prison settings both female and male inmates were housed together. It was not until 1891 when the New York when a female was assaulted by a male that they began to separate the male and female gender (CriminalJusticeSchoolInfo.com, 2015). This is one challenge that is faced being either the victim or the perpetrator in the justice system. When...
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...nature or as symbolic of mother nature itself, as cosmic goddess or evil goddess, but never as a central figure. As a result, the woman in such studies has been relegated to a secondary role, becoming a facilitator of the journey and its recompense, not its main subject. In The Female Hero in American and British Literature, Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope contend that "our...
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...McKELVEY Editor Tara McKelvey brings together stories of “women as aggressors and torturers” in the selections here. First, Francine D’Amico points out the gendered aspect of the prison abuses, aka atrocities and war crimes, that happened at Abu Ghraib-- as well as how the representation of these reflect gendered biases. Lucinda Marshall further critiques the focused chastisement of women victimizers in Abu Ghraib that ignored, say, a superior commander's’ influence, and that used examples of such women to argue that women should not be in the military at all. She illuminates the disturbing link between violence and pornography, noting that a picture’s being on a pornographic website does not preclude it from being abuse. She lists examples of sexual assault in the military, showing that it is not new or isolated to Abu Ghraib. Her most powerful statement is that “sexual abuse against men is considered torture; sexual abuse against women by men is business as usual” (55), calling upon feminists to redirect conversations to shed light on this contradiction and focus on the more common victims of sexual violence in war, the Iraqi women, whose rapes and sexual assaults are underreported because their...
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...A closed prison system is a type of prison system where the prisoners are not trusted to interact with society. It is mainly for prisoners whose escape would be highly dangerous to society. The prisoners in closed prisons are mostly categorized as Standard Escape Risk or High Escape Risk. Closed systems improve system wide prison safety, order and control ,as well as contribute to many positive unintended effects. A con of the closed system is that prison violence is not reduced in this system and since there is a high level of African Americans in these types of prisons, they may be racially motivated (Siegel and Bartollas, pg. 147, 2014). I do not think that the field of corrections seems to be appealing to female employees. Females, especially working in a jail or a prison, have to work extra hard to not be taken advantage of. Males and females alike in the prison will not take a female officer as seriously as they would a big male officer because of the lack in strength and, stereotypically, females tend to be softer than males emotionally. “The United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual 2D1.1(c) assigns a 1:100 ratio between [->0] . In other words, it treats 1 gram of crack as being equivalent to 100 grams of cocaine in drug quantity (Martinovich, 2005) One reason for the differences in punishment might be because crack is proven to be more addictive than powder cocaine. Another reason might be because crack is lower in cost per dose meaning that it is more widespread...
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...favor of Rawlinson citing that it would eliminate up to 40% of the female population and only 1% of the male population. The District Court ruled that the close contact prohibition was not allowable under Title VII and that being a male was not a necessity in an all-male prison. The Supreme Court had to decide if the District Court ruled incorrectly with the decision that it was a discriminatory practice and did violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the lower...
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...worksheet by writing short responses to the questions in each row. |How would you differentiate male and female |Male and female prisoners are different, and their different in many ways. Generally a| |prisoner backgrounds? Is there a better |female inmate looks to other inmates as her friends, and or family. Females also tend | |solution to prisoner background |to worry more about the people on the outside, like their children, whereas men | |classification? Explain. |generally only think about their selves and their safety. Personally I believe that a | | |better solution to prisoner background classification could be done a continuous | | |investigation. Normally once an inmate gets a classification it sticks with him/her | | |throughout their prison term. I believe an inmate’s classification should be reviewed | | |and possibly changed once a year. | |How do state and federal prisoners differ? |The biggest differences between state and federal prisons is the inmates, their | |What issues affect state versus federal |crimes, and the type of facility there in, state prisoners are in prison for crimes | |prisoners? |they committed against the state, federal inmates...
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...pillory and physical punishments such as whipping, men and women the same. Female prisoners prior to the 1800s were placed in separate cells, but mixed with male prisoners during the day and controlled by male prison guards around the clock. Once in prison women were surrounded by men, which led to the sexual abuse and exploitation of many female prisoners during those times. As the years have passed female prisons continue to offer a setting very much identical to the male prison, with daytime work activities, education programs, and occupational programs, strict schedules, and constant security. Female prisons today also offer programs that help to sustain parenting (Phoenix, 2011). As the penitentiary became firmly established in the half of the 1800s, reformers argued that young people should not be locked up in these institutions (Foster, 2006). Reformers then established three basic arguments to support the reasons behind the needed separation of juvenile prisoners from adult prisoners: 1. The adult prison system was too rigorous for juveniles. 2. Juveniles would pick up bad tendencies from older prisoners and be upset by the experience of imprisonment. 3. Juveniles could change their ways if they were redirected to facilities developed specifically for individuals similar in age. Had things remain as they were prior to efforts to reform, and there was no distinction between juvenile and adult prisons the criminal justices system would have many juveniles with irreparable...
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...The social and economic status of a person is determined by several things. How wealthy, how powerful, and how prestige a person is can all influence the social status of a person. Economic status of a person can be influenced by how educated that person is, what their occupation is, and what their income is. Person A, a female and a CEO of a large trading company, would be perceived as having high social and economic status. She is responsible for making important decisions regarding the company that could result in loss or gain. It is not often that a female is the CEO of a large financial trading business, thus Person A is perceived as being powerful, prestigious, and well educated. She leads a company; whose members respect her and her decisions concerning assets and actions of the company. Having resided in six countries, she is portrayed as being social and adaptable. To have been able to live in different countries, she needed to know how to socialize and communicate with diverse people accordingly....
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...Rickers Island is a prison which is located in New York which holds offenders who have been charged but not tried. The documentary shown shows the prison ethics and lifestyle inside the prison. It also focuses on the women’s condition inside the prison who are pregnant. Rickers island has about eight thousand officials to run the prison. There’s a ERU (Emergency Response Unit) who are trained to handle the violent inmates and do area search. Despite of this this inmate manage to smuggle weapons, contrabands and drugs. Inmates manage to create a weapon from almost any objects and in order to maintain the secrecy they have given code names which only inmates can understand. One of the example is “Shiv” which means sharp pointed object. Most of the inmates that are held on the island are bound to return back due to their criminal acts. The video shows most inmates as Hispanic and black. The cells for males and females are separated but female officers are shown to work in male’s section efficiently and on equal footing to male officers. In the video a female officer has been shown effectively operating her duties while putting chains on inmate’s legs....
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...The Prison Population Info 122 Amanda Wahmhoff Ins: Tiffany Gabbard February 12, 2013 The prison population is an ever changing number. Both men and women are sentenced to prison for various reasons and for different amounts of time. There is how ever a difference in the number of the different races that are sentenced for prison terms. As well as the usual problems there are also other problems that women have to deal with. We will talk about these problems and what they mean. When we talk about prison population most people think about males and the problems that they face. Most people do not think about the women in this kind of environment. Women face the same problems that the men face but there is one added problem with the whole thing; a woman gets raped and can end up with child. The biggest problem with this is that it is the guards that are doing it. Women in a prison in Tallahassee have had problems with being raped by the guards. “Women prisoners and guards alike have been complaining about sexual abuse by male guards at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)...
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