Exam 11: Women and Corrections

During the 19th century, for which crimes did white women tend to be incarcerated more than black women?

Dorothea Dix had a very unfavorable view of houses of refuge.

Inmates have no real right to privacy in the United States.

Explain why it costs more money to incarcerate female offenders.

Prior to the Civil War, in Tennessee ______.

In 2013, women comprised ______ of the probation population.

______ were used to remove impressionable youth from the contamination that association with hardened adult criminals might bring.

Explain why females tend to commit fewer violent crimes than their male counterparts.

Which of the following is one of the primary rationales for removing women and girls from male correctional facilities?

Liberal feminists believe that women who violate social norms are whores.

Which of the following is an example of one of the social remedies proposed by moralists looking to reform women under correctional supervision?

The Ninth Circuit Court restrictions placed on correctional staff limited ______.

The attitude of Dorothea Dix about houses of refuge was ______.

Compare and contrast the issues affecting female and male prisoners.

Females cost much more to incarcerate than males.

A Maryland law passed in 1858 made black women who committed larceny the subject of ______.

The female correctional population has never been larger than it is today.

The first prison with a separate wing for women was opened in ______.

The first women's prison in the United States was Mount Pleasant, built in 1839.

Liberal feminists have argued that, to improve their situation, female offenders really need ______.