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12 Cards in this Set
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Arrests by gender |
Comparison of arrest data between male and female offenders |
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Preferential treatment |
Argument that female offenders receive more lenient treatment at all phases of the criminal justice system |
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"Traditional" female crimes |
Those criminal offenses particular to the female gender (prostitution and infanticide) |
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Victimless crimes |
Offenses in which the victim does not seem to appear, or is equaled to the offender (prostitution and drug abuse) |
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Paternalistic attitude of judges |
Sentiments found in a system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control, particularly for female offenders |
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Women's liberation movement |
A series of social movements intended to narrow the gaps between rights and privileges accorded to males and to free females from oppressive minority status |
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Abused females |
Female victims of usually violent acts that may be physical or psychological in damage or both |
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Pregnant inmates |
Female inmates who at time of detention are carrying a fetus or enter that condition while incarcerated |
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Family cohesion |
Describes the relationship between offenders and their families, as in sticking together tightly |
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Single-sex experience |
Inmate behavior involving other persons of the same sex in either a homogenital or homosocial relationship |
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Psychological deprivation |
Loss of or failure to develop emotional cohesion, support, or love through failure to provide emotional or physical caring |
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Co-gender institution |
A co-educational prison housing both male and female inmates interacting under a single institutional administration |
