SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Psychiatric Services, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse
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Imprisoned women are referred to as too few to count" or correctional afterthoughts". >500,000 women and girls are imprisoned either as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or convicted/sentenced. Social and structural factors (e. g. , changing in policing and sentencing patterns) Empirical evidence shows that women who commit crime: tend not to commit serious crimes, tend to have experienced social exclusion caused by poverty, racism, mental illness, physical and sexual violence. Relatively few women commit crimes: tend to be involved in property crimes (e. g. , theft, shoplifting, fraud) Small percentage of women are convicted of violent crimes: tend to be over-represented in prostitution-related crimes. Women are less likely than men to be repeat offenders, and if they do reoffend, then the crimes tend not to escalate in severity. Women are less likely than men to receive a prison sentence. Women are more likely than men to receive a community sentence of probation.
