WOMEN IN PRISON.

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: SOCI 301 . Examines the socio-structural relationships between women’s lives and women’s crimes and explores how race, class, and gender assumptions shape the experiences of female correctional officers and female inmates. In addition, analyzes how the prison rules and regulations that girls and women have to abide by are deeply gendered. Since the 1980s, the number of women and girls incarcerated has increased drastically. Yet, very little is known about female criminality.