Terms #1
This was the first women's prison in the United States.
What is Mount Pleasant Prison?
Discriminatory attitudes, beliefs, and practices directed to one race by another.
What is racism?
This involves the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that value men and boys over women and girls is called this.
What is patriarchy?
This occurs when the workplace is sexualized with jokes, with pictures, or in other ways that are offensive to one gender.
What is a hostile environment?
Differential treatment of an individual or group without reference to the behavior or qualifications of the same.
What is discrimination?
People who believe that the problem for girls and women involved in crime lies more with the social structure around them and that the solution lies in preparing them for an alternative existence, so they do not have to turn to crime are called this.
What are liberal feminists?
Sheriffs' wives who admitted and supervised arrestees, thwarted jail escapes, apprehended escapees, and challenged lynch mobs were in charge of these types of jails.
What are mom-and-pop jails?
This type of harassment involves giving something in order to get something, as in you give your boss sexual favors and the boss allows you to keep your job.
What is quid pro quo sexual harassment?
The unequal treatment of one group by the criminal justice system, compared with the treatment accorded to other groups.
What is disparity?
People who believed that women and girls involved in the criminal justice system were in effect morally impaired and therefore in need to religious and social remedies.
Who are moralists? (or social feminists)
The purpose of these was to remove impressionable youth, mainly boys but also girls, from the contamination that association with more hardened adult prisoners might bring.
What are houses of refuge?
People who violate expectations regarding their gender roles and social and legal prohibitions against the commitment of crime are called this.
What are double deviants?
This refers to the classification of humans into populations or groups based on various factors such as culture, language, social practice, or heritable characteristics.
What is race?
This refers to groups of people with a shared culture.
What is ethnicity?