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Title: Abuse, Murder, and Manslaughter: Interviews with Women Prisoners on Social Factors Contributing to T


1
Abuse, Murder, and ManslaughterInterviews with
Women Prisoners on Social Factors Contributing to
Their Crime Sentence
  • By Nicole Novak

2
Introduction
  • Womens Prisons vs. Mens Prisons
  • Indiana Womens Prison
  • First Offense
  • Stereotype
  • Juvenile Offenses

3
Purpose and Thesis
  • Limited qualitative research on women in prison
  • Social factors
  • Demographic characteristics linked to social
    factors

4
Literature Review
  • Increase of women in prison
  • Richards and Tittle (1981)
  • Banks (2003)
  • Indiana Womens Prison
  • Banks (2003)
  • Indiana Department of Correction (2007)

5
Literature Review
  • Demographic characteristics
  • Education and Occupation
  • Fletcher, Shaver, and Moon (1993)
  • Daly (1994)
  • Substance abuse
  • Daly (1994)
  • Fletcher, Shaver, and Moon (1993)
  • Flowers (1995)
  • Physical and sexual abuse
  • Owen (1998)
  • Fletcher, Shaver, and Moon (1993)
  • Daly (1994)
  • Criminal activity
  • Daly (1994)
  • Flowers (1995)

6
Theory
  • Structural Strain Theory
  • Goals and means
  • Anomie
  • Five types of adaptation
  • Steffensmeier and Allan
  • Gendered theories for committing crimes

7
Theory
8
Methodology
  • Participants
  • Four women
  • Ages 19
  • Gatekeepers list of ten women
  • Random Sample
  • Three participants were white
  • One participant was African American
  • Education
  • Offense
  • Pseudo-name given
  • Procedures and Materials
  • Interview schedule
  • Questions included
  • Personal and family history
  • Tape-recorded
  • Length of interviews
  • Transcribed

9
Methodology
  • Strengths
  • Rich data
  • Rapport
  • Response rate
  • Accessibility and contribution
  • Limitations
  • Difficult to relate to women in prison
  • List of women provided to me

10
Findings
  • Family Background
  • Biological parents
  • Foster care
  • Prominence of parents in formative years

11
Findings
  • Religion
  • Sarah
  • Was Presbyterian, now Mennonite
  • Mary
  • No preference
  • Connie
  • Was the Eastern Star Masonic Church, now no
    preference
  • Jenny
  • Was Islamic, now Christian
  • Referring to the Nation of Islam
  • I dont care what anybody says, its a cult. So
    that kind of led to the isolation that allowed
    the drinking, my son to pass, and the process of
    that, they the Nation of Islam didnt allow any
    of my friends to interject.

12
Abuse
13
Abuse
  • Sarah
  • I dont remember anything but because of my
    psychological tests, there is it shows that I
    have been, so I dont really know for sure
    because I dont have a memory.
  • Mary
  • Psychiatrists
  • Family history

14
Drug and Alcohol Usage
15
Drug and Alcohol Usage
  • Jenny
  • I came into the county jail with my prescription
    medication in my purse.

16
Previous Offenses
  • First time imprisoned
  • Juvenile crime
  • Parole or probation
  • Sarah
  • Childhood history
  • Abuse

17
Discussion
  • Attributed to deviant acts
  • Family (biological) background
  • Abuse
  • Varied drug and alcohol abuse
  • Abuse
  • Implementation of programs
  • Education
  • Gatekeeper
  • Drug and alcohol usage

18
Further Research
  • More information on a population that is
    understudied
  • Identifying social factors that contribute to
    womens criminal behavior
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