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Chapter 13
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benign neglect
benign neglect disparities in treatment, services, and programming that happen largely by default
co-correctional unit
co-correctional unit a facility housing both men and women
cools
coolsinmates who manipulated other inmates to make their own time pass more quickly
and easily
custody variance score
custody variance score a score that represents the sum of risk factors of a prisoner and can be used to
determine an increase or decrease in their security levels
dual diagnosis
dual diagnosis some inmates enter prison using illegal substances or abuse legal ones and they suffer
from posttraumatic stress disorder
duality of women
duality of women in the 1860s the English social critic Henry Mayhew described criminal women as both
Madonna and whore
egalitarian families
egalitarian families husbands and wives share power and their positions in society are equal
habilitation
habilitationthe process of acquiring the basic life skills needed to function in society
liberation hypothesis
liberation hypothesis women’s liberation opened up criminal activities to a new generation of
women and that there would be an end to the traditional male–female distinctions in crime
Marxist feminism
Marxist feminism male dominance reflects a social ideology that is willing to subjugate women, first to
capital and second to men
patriarchal families
patriarchal families families that produce daughters whose futures are limited to domestic labor and
consumption; the fathers exercise great control over the lives of the girls and young women
play families
play families also known as pseudo-families: women in prison tend to need more emotional
support and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another
power-control theory
power-control theory suggests that the presence of power and the absence of control in egalitarian families create conditions conducive to common forms of delinquency for both boys and girls
pseudo-families
pseudo-families also known as play families: women in prison tend to need more emotional support
and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another
radical feminism
radical feminism the theory that male power and privilege both define all social relations and are the
primary cause of all social inequities
socialist feminism
socialist feminism a form of feminist criminology based on the belief that the intersection of social class
and gender is the nexus of crime
the mix
the mix defiance exhibited by certain inmates
women’s reformatory
women’s reformatory a cottage-style facility where female staff supervise inmates and teach them
appropriate domestic skills