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A 15 page examination of women in the criminal justice system and how their treatment is inferior to that received by men in the same situations. Bibliography lists fifteen sources.
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harshly than men with the same criminal backgrounds (Giallombardo, 1966). Gillombardo outlines the deplorable prison conditions which existed prior to the implementation separate penal systems for men and women
in the late nineteenth century. He delineates the differences in occupational training as well as in other rehabilitative methods between mens and womens facilities. Giallombardo discusses in some
detail how the womens systems tried to instill a homelike environment with the specific aim or returning women to their more accepted traditional roles.
Conley too investigates women in the criminal justice system of the nineteenth century but does so in England. There too, according to Conleys excellent study of
primary materials which shed light on the European justice system, women were expected to conform to societys ideal of "woman" and those that strayed from this ideal were typically treated
unequally under the law. Conley observes that, interestingly, this was not the case in Ireland where a persons actions and not her gender was the determining factor in prosecution
of that woman. Family Issues Ethnic News Watchs report on black women who are incarcerated
in our nations prison systems provides an informative view not just of family issues when it comes to black families but provides information which in fact is common with many
women who find themselves inmates in the penitentiary system Ethnic News Watchs report gives an excellent overview of the dilemma facing families who have an incarcerated family member. The
circumstances can be particularly harsh when this family member is a mother. Estimates from 1991 indicate that two-thirds of incarcerated women
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