Poverty & Financial Distress
What type of abuse can women experience from their intimate partner besides physical abuse?
Financial Abuse
Why do many Indigenous women in prison have trauma?
Because of past abuse and victimization
Name one type of program Indigenous women may need in prison
Cultural programs (or mental health, addiction, emotional support)
What perspective helps us understand victimization across a person’s whole life?
The life course perspective
Does the life course perspective focus on one moment or an entire life?
An entire life
Women in relationships with traditional gender roles are how many times more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence?
3 times more likely
Colonial harms have resulted in what?
Victimization
What factors are important to understand when considering prevention and treatment?
Histories of victimization
What is a limitation of the mandatory minimum penalty?
It limits the judicial ability to consider contexual factors leading to women's engagement in criminal behaviour
When can victimization be especially harmful?
During critical periods
Economic strain can lead to what types of crimes committed by women?
Theft and Fraud
What are 2 unique forms of victimization that Indigenous women experience?
lasting effects of colonization, racisms, discrimination, physical/sexual abuse and violence
What unfair labels are sometimes used for Indigenous women in prison that prevent them from accessing proper care?
Angry, unstable, violent
Things such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, experiencing violence can be categorized as what?
Adverse childhood experiences
What are long temporal patterns?
Long temporal patterns are used within the life course perspective to show how our lives unfold over time in long-term pathways or trajectories
Why do women commit economic related crimes?
To avoid dependency
What percent of Indigenous women represent all federally sentenced women in Canada?
42%
What are 2 common gaps in being able to access domestic abuse shelters?
Needing more shelters as some had none in their towns and some do not accept children which prevented the women from being able to access the shelter
Women and girls are overrepresented targets of what 2 forms of violence?
Sexual offences, and intimate partner violence
Poverty & Inequality
What percent of Indigenous people aged 16 and older living off-reserve were below the poverty line? HINT below 25%
18%
What act resulted in the loss of status for Indigenous women?
The Indian Act
What are of the 2 of the 3 strategies give from the United States study of incarcerated women?
Recognize childhood abuse, expand domestic violence shelters and service system, and address the experiences of victimization within the sentencing process
What was Renee Acoby originally sentenced for?
Drug trafficking and assault with a weapon
What are 2 of the 6 concepts on the life course perspective model?
Childhood adversities, early-onset substance disorder, early-onset psychiatric disorders, incarceration, psychiatric disorders. disability in social and economic roles