Female Imprisonment

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Shah, 1981
It has been suggested that, like beauty, dangerousness lies in the eye of the beholder
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Naylor, 1995
the woman who has engaged in extramarital sex, or just ***** sex, or is just '****', is capable of any kind of deviance
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Lombroso, 1895
criminal propensities of female born criminals are more intense and perverse even than those of their male counterparts
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Carlen, 2004
By going to prison, a woman's needs are address and the risk of her committing a crime in the future is diminished
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Carlen, 2002
women's prisons do more than just punish. They provide rehabilitation, psychological readjustment and training
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Willison & O'Brien, 2016
prison is oppressive for women
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Player, 2005
female prisoners are more likely to be suffering from multiple forms of deprivation than male prisoners
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Ministry of Justice
for much of the period between 2002 and 2014, a disproportionately high number of sexual assault incidents were reported in women's establishments
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McIvor, 2007
female offending is less frequent, less serious and more transient than offending by men
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Carlen, 2004
Women typically commit less crime, and are arguably less dangerous, and the crimes they do commit are less socially injurous
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Carlen, 2002
women criminals are not seen as posing the same risks to the general public as men, and moreover, their claims to special treatment as mothers were receiving sympathetic publicity
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Carlen, 2002
Women suffer a double punishment - as women who have failed the "gender test" and as women who have broken the law
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Franklin, 2008
unintended consequences of gender-neutral approaches, including adverse effects on women such as civil remedies attached to their offence
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Franklin, 2008
Racialized feminization of poverty
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Hudson, 2002
white women are the ideal victim
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Van Wormer, 2010
75% of the prison population [is] non-violent offences
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Hudson, 2002
Gender neutral approach has to eliminate childcare, mental illness, addictions, histories of physical and sexual abuse
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Carlen, 2004
punishing women is problematic in the respect that the way women should be treated is widely debated
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Franklin, 2008
punishing women is problematic due to conflict theory, and the policing of female sexuality and morality
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Feldman-Savelsberg, 1999
argue that a woman's sole purpose is child bearing
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Hedderman and Jolliffe, 2015
women released from prison are twice as likely to re-offend as a comparable cohort of women given community orders
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the woman who has engaged in extramarital sex, or just ***** sex, or is just '****', is capable of any kind of deviance

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