Gender, Crime, and Social Control
True or false: Most women get involved in criminal activity through contact with a man in their life.
True
What racial demographic makes up the most suspensions from school?
What is African American.
True or false. People with mental illnesses are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system.
True
Which country has the highest rate of mass shootings?
What is the United States.
______ refers to an environment where sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture.
What is rape culture.
What is implicit bias.
What is one structural reason for why people with mental illnesses are disproportionality involved in the criminal justice system?
What is deinstitutionalization, police as first responders, or criminalization of homelessness.
Moral panics against which drug targeted Chinese immigrants working on the US railroad system?
What is Opium.
____ refers to the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine and overlap especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.
What is intersectionality.
___ describes the recent overlaps between the immigration system and the criminal justice system.
What is crimmigration.
A municipal code banning loitering in public places can be an example of what phenomenon?
What is criminalization of homelessness.
What is the most high risk form of prostitution?
What is streetwalker.