Abstract More and more women-mothers‚ grandmothers‚ wives‚ daughters‚ and sisters are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years‚ decades‚ even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly‚ there’s been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here‚ and why? This paper will be a critical analysis of the book‚ “Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. This paper
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The rate of women being incarcerated in prisons has dramatically risen over the last decade. While these women are being locked up for crimes ranging from drug possession to murder‚ they often come into the prison system with children or pregnant. Nationwide‚ nearly 2 million children have parents in prison. The number of those with incarcerated mothers is growing rapidly. A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the number of minors with mothers in prison increased by more
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Difficulties women face behind bars Perry B Keaton Women Crime and Criminal Justice - 2 Instructor: Fabrienne McDowell September 5‚ 2015 Difficulties women face behind bars -1 In today society women are gaining ground with their fellow men when it comes to them being incarcerated. So that brings me to the first question of this week individual assignment. What major differences do you find in the treatment of men versus women while incarcerated? When it comes to men and women in prison
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Fiona “Bullies Behind Bars” “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Jr. There are so many things that matter to me that I feel I should speak up about. Bullying is one of the things that affects me the most. I find it repulsive that people feel the need to put others down to make themselves feel better. In recent studies 77% of kids have been affected by bullying‚ 14% have experienced severe reactions to abuse. In certain cases the bullying
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL RESEARCH TITLE Religion Behind Bars: An Anthropological study of prison religion in the district jail of the Muzzafarnagar‚ Uttar Pradesh. RESEARCH QUESTION:To find out the role of Religion‚ and the grounds on which it emerges inside the prison? STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The history of mankind has shown the pervasive influences of religion‚ and thus the study of religion involving the attempt to understand its significance‚ its origin‚ and its myriad form‚ has become important in
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History leads to ‘now’ The United States of America is a federal republic liberal capitalist nation since 1788. The People’s Republic of China is a sovereign narrow minded communist state since 1949. Tibet was and always has been a remote religious Buddhist …… (Blank)………… Nation or state or both or none? The Tibetan identity is grossly undefined since China’s armed incursion of 1950. Half the country is in exile in India and other parts of the world. It has been 58 long years since what China
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Raising Babies Behind Bars There is an increased growth of women incarceration worldwide‚ especially in the United States. According to the Washington‚ DC Bureau of Justice Statistics ‚ between 1980 and 2014‚ the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 700 percent‚ rising from a total of 26‚378 in 1980 to 215‚332 in 2014. Though many more men are in prison than women‚ the rate of growth for female imprisonment has outpaced men by more than 50% between 1980 and 2014. There
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archetypal loving wife and mother‚ she is limited from successfully expressing her own beliefs and creativity. This confinement is a direct result of John‚ who is both her husband and physician. Contrary to the subservient and domestic standard that women were held to during the 19th century‚ the narrator rebels against her husband‚ John‚ by engaging in creative activities during her treatment. Conflicting with the societal model of the all-knowing male counter-part‚ the narrator’s insanity is due
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“Literacy behind Bars” “Literacy behind Bars is a narrative that is taken from “The Auto-biography of Malcom X.” In it‚ he explains how being incarcerated gave him the oppritunity to expand his vocabulary and help foster his love for reading. Like many people in prison‚ he spent time reading books‚ the issue was that many of the words in the books he did not understand. He decided to expand his vocabulary and each day copied a page from the dictionary by hand and then read it aloud to himself. By
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desperate attempt to solve his problems. By the time my middle brother was sixteen years old‚ he had accumulated five felonies and had only finished three weeks of ninth grade. Now he is a twenty year old who has spent two years of his adult life behind bars. As a result‚ I have matured much faster than a majority of my peers as a result of witnessing the consequences that follow unwise decisions and how those consequences affect not only you‚ but those around
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