Private Patriarchy: The Role Of Female Offenders In Prisons

employment rates are negatively impacted by past imprisonment records. More males experience hardship when released from prison, while females experience an increase in employment rates after their release. Females who had a job prior to their imprisonment are the ones who have the highest likelihood of gaining employment after their release. This impact could be explained through the employment training programs that females undergo while in prison. These types of program help females learn job skills and positive social skills that will help them gain employment when released. Cho’s study can also impact policy that targets female offenders. Restorative or redintegrative programs depend on the success of female employment in order for them to be implemented in other institutions (p. 139). The results from …show more content…
The research done on the patriarchy levels women experience in both public and private settings and how those limitations can cause females to commit crimes. Public patriarchy is defined as the limitations women experience in institutions and the disadvantaged position women generally tend to have in society. Private patriarchy is one sector that research has not explored as extensively as public patriarchy. Private patriarchy explains that as women become structured to take care of the home, it gives the male the power to dominate over the economic resources and maintain the woman in a dependent position. Public patriarchy explains how women are oppressed by society with unequal rights between men and females. Economic marginalization theory states that women commit criminal acts because of their limited chances of success due to the inequalities they experience in society. In order to find sufficient evidence to support the theory, the researchers studied how both levels of patriarchy affect female crime rates within different geographical