Chapter 5 - Criminalized Women In Canada Flashcards
What are the amount of women who are accused in police reported incidents?
A Quarter of those accused in police reported incidents.
Where is women’s representation highest in court cases?
Completed court cases of fraud, theft and drug related crimes.
Women are often charged with what drug offence?
Drug trafficking over possessions.
What percentage to women make up of offenders of theft and fraud? Who do they tend to be?
- 27% - 28% of theft and fraud respectively are women.
- Women accused of fraud tend to be older than those accused of other offences.
-Usually non-Indigenous and lower rates of recidivism.
What is one of the biggest worries for incarcerated women?
The care of their children.
-Worried if they will be taken into welfare custody or living with other family members.
- Sometimes r children of incarcerated women become wards of the state which eliminates future contact with their mother.
-Prisons offer very little privacy which can be difficult for women, especially those with pasts of trauma.
What are the intersections between women who use drugs and other criminalization?
Often women who use drugs enter sex trade/work to pay/cope with addictions.
-Body as “crime zone” of their victimization, can’t escape it.
How does CSC treat self injury?
As security risk and uses isolation and punishment instead of treatment.
Ex. Ashley Smith
Approximately 40-50% of crimes committed by males and females can be attributed to what?
Drug and alcohol use.
What are the 4 catalysis for drug use?
- Family relationships
- Peer influence
- Experience of loss
- Internal or self motivations.
Criminalized/racialized women’s substance use is villainized more heavily than non criminalized/white.
What was the April 22 Incident at P4W?
-Women waiting for medication attacked and threatened the officers.
-Put into segregation
-Stripped and restrained by all male group.
-Basic privileges revoked.
-Was filmed and then released by the 5th estate.
-Commission of inquiry undertaken.
What was the task force on federally sentenced women??
Assesses correctional management of women sentenced to federal prison.
What were the Creating Choices recommendations?
Provided a women centered prison model
Criteria of women-centredness not defined
New facilities did not accommodate max security inmates.
What were the principles of Creating Choices?
Empowerment, meaningful and responsible choices, respect and dignity, supportive environment and responsibility.
What did the Creating Choices fail to consider?
Women can be both victims and offenders.
Critiques of discourse of dependency.
What are Watchdog groups? Name 2.
They ensure the rights of people in conflict with the law are upheld.
- Office of the Correctional Investigator
-Ombudsperson for the federally sentenced
-investigating and resolving complains. - Citizen Advisory Committees
-Members of public.
-Provided CSC with advice and recommendations
-80 CACS in Canada.
