6 Women Vs. Men Equal? Flashcards
Gendered inequalities in wider society such as:
Income
Parenting/caring responsibilities
Employment
Women’s offending largely due to?
Need not greed
Women’s offending may also occur through…
Coercion - drug smuggling
Women may offend to (coercion)…
Support someone else’s drug use and sex work
Women offenders are more likely to have histories of…
Abuse (childhood and adulthood)
Women offenders have higher rates of…
Mental health issues and self harm
Carlen 1990 introduced…
‘Woman wise penology’
“We need penal regulation of women that does not increase their oppression further and regulation of men that does not brutalise them to make them more violently and ideologically oppressive towards…
Women”
Conclusion: women are different - routes into offending are different so they should be…
Treated differently
