01:202:203 Lecture 8: 6.14.17_Chapter 6 – big book
7 Apr 2018
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Women in corrections: women are the fastest growing sector population in corrections, 9 out of 10 people in corrections (incarcerated and other related areas) are male. History of punishment: women had to abide by rules of fidelity and were punished if not kept in line , reformation movements led by elizabeth fry, dorothy dix, mary winstar, and others. Provided femininity and instilled power to women. Different from political activists and suffragists: prison reformers set out to promote female morality, virtue and purity, suffragists fought for female rights, development of women prisons. Reformatory: considered less harsh, stimulated more reform, less serious offender, focused more on female morality, more for white women of north and less for african american women of south. Custodial institution: female criminality, reformatory movement died down by 1930s. Theories of female criminality: positivism distinguished between male and female criminality, females were more immoral than males (in regards to criminality, cesare lombroso the female offender (book he wrote)
