SOC301H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Therapeutic Relationship, Suicidal Ideation, Impulsivity
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Individualism is central to this process which ignores the impact of social factors on people"s choices and behaviour, as a result, disadvantage and exclusion are reframed as matters of choice and not of structural processes. Feminist criminologists have long pointed out that women"s offending patterns are related to structural factors such as poverty, systemic racism and violence against women and have called for prison programming that is responsive to women"s gendered experiences. Women"s gendered, classed and racialized experiences of exclusion are reconstructed as being a result of individual psychological and cognitive deficits. Technologies of government in the form of mental health treatment are invoked to encourage self-regulation, the goal of which is to either control or contain the ungovernable or to create self-regulating moral citizens. Creating choices highlighted the fact that well over the majority of imprisoned women have experienced childhood physical and sexual abuse as well as domestic violence and sexual assault as adults.
