The myth of the new female offender: Some evidence from attitudes toward law and justice

Erez, Edna

doi:10.1016/0047-2352(88)90081-5

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“…Finally, caution is warranted in the generalization of any of these results. The "typical" inmate who participated in this study was European American, unlike the "typica1"inmates in previous studies (e.g., Cape & Schade, 1992;Erez, 1988). In addition, the sample used in this study was from one institution only, and may not be representative of institutions in other states.…”

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The Incarcerated Female Felon and Substance Abuse: Demographics, Needs Assessment, and Program Planning for a Neglected Population

Sanders

McNeill

Rienzi

et al. 1997

J Addict Offender Couns

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Incarcerated women (203 of 237) completed a needs survey designed by an inmate steering committee. The typical inmate was a European American mother of 2 children. Relevant programming (substance abuse education classes, self-study programs, didactic groups and workshops) is discussed. omen constitute only 5.5% of inmates in state prisons (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1995), but the number of incarcerated female offenders W has tripled in the last decade (Schilling et al., 1994). Relatively few empirical studies focus on the female offender. The limited available research focuses on substance abuse (Biron, Brochu,

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confidence: 96%

The Incarcerated Female Felon and Substance Abuse: Demographics, Needs Assessment, and Program Planning for a Neglected Population

Sanders

McNeill

Rienzi

et al. 1997

J Addict Offender Couns

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“…Contrary to some "emancipation" theories of crime, which posit that female violence is due to the "economic and familial emancipation of women" (Archer, 2000, p. 668), women with greater economic resources and more egalitarian values are not the most violent. Indeed, poorer women with less education, lower job status, and more traditional values are overrepresented, relative to other women, among offenders (Erez, 1988;Snell & Morton, 1994). Gender differences may vary markedly across settings and subgroups.…”

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Measuring Gender Differences in Partner Violence: Implications from Research on Other Forms of Violent and Socially Undesirable Behavior

Hamby

2005

Sex Roles

108

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The proposition that men and women perpetrate partner violence equally would make partner violence unique with respect to other forms of interpersonal violence. Women, however, commit a substantial minority of violent acts. Any theory of gender patterns in partner violence needs to be reconciled with other violence data. Data on other violence indicate that different methodologies sample from different sets of phenomena, and those methods that sample the least severe violence show greater gender equivalence. Interpretation is clouded, however, by underreporting and overreporting across methodologies. Despite improvements in self-report measures, partner violence measurement lacks a gold standard. A gold standard would include incident data, sexual violence, injury, and be developed through direct comparison of multiple methods, including perhaps real-time self-monitoring.

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“…In the mid-1970s, there was speculation that the feminist movement had resulted in the masculinization of women, leading to an increase in violent crime among women (Adler, 1975a;Simon, 1975;Weis, 1976). Even though research has thoroughly de-bunked this idea, and in fact, rates of violent crime did not steadily increase and violent offenders remain more traditionally feminine than non-violent offenders (Campbell et al, 1987;Erez, 1988;Trice and Lamb, 1996), the myth that feminism created violent women and lesbians persists. The close association between the terms feminist and lesbian in the popular imagination leads to the direct conclusion that lesbians are aggressive, feminist man haters.…”

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From invisible to incorrigible: The demonization of marginalized women and girls

Chesney‐Lind

Eliason

2006

Crime, Media, Culture

107

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Two disturbing recent trends in the media and popular constructions of girls, women, and aggression are analyzed in this article: the media attention to ‘aggression’ and ‘violence’ of girls with the subsequent tendency to arrest and incarcerate girls, particularly those of color, and the depiction of lesbians as criminals, particularly as violent predators. Both of these trends are related to gender stereotypes about femininity and masculinity, and the increased power and visibility of women in contemporary society. Also interrogated in both these discussions is the complicity of some academics with the ‘masculinization’ of certain girls and women, thereby lending a certain legitimacy to their punishment, incarceration, and execution. The latter factor has resulted in significant backlash against women, as witnessed by the explosion in arrest rates and incarceration of girls and women in spite of decreases in violent crime. Women, particularly marginalized women, continue to be harshly judged for any departure from traditional feminine ideals.

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The myth of the new female offender: Some evidence from attitudes toward law and justice

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

The Incarcerated Female Felon and Substance Abuse: Demographics, Needs Assessment, and Program Planning for a Neglected Population

The Incarcerated Female Felon and Substance Abuse: Demographics, Needs Assessment, and Program Planning for a Neglected Population

Measuring Gender Differences in Partner Violence: Implications from Research on Other Forms of Violent and Socially Undesirable Behavior

From invisible to incorrigible: The demonization of marginalized women and girls

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