Galloism wrote:Merizoc wrote:They're in prison, there is no fucking privileged class.
Yes, yes there is.
Men receive sentences 63% longer for the same crime, and women are twice as likely to avoid incarceration for the same crime if convicted.
https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/f ... ities.aspx
This is the last I'll say on this topic.
In Australia, sentencing is performed through a method known as 'instinctive synthesis'. It balances out all the factors relevant to sentencing, whether they are the circumstances of the offence or the offender - and separating the two fis a fallacy -- together with the rationales for sentencing (deterrence, protective incarceration, rehabilitation, denunciation by the community etc) and, having regard to prevalent sentencing trends, come out with the number that feels most right.
Inherently, you might say, such a system based on using how the sentencer feels about all those factors and their importance (and keep in mind that this really involves a character assessment of the offender) is going to result in some biases creeping in. A female offender who is a survivor of domestic violence, or child abuse as any
But having read (and at times seen) a fair amount of sentencing decisions, I have to say this: Women present in circumstances that call for lesser
We also, of course, have to keep this in the context of where we are as a socirty. While gender roles in our society are a double-edged sword, there is no doubt that we live in a society that men designed to benefit men. Complaints about advantages women hold are not wrong per se, but in almost all cases they are an attempt to divert the discussion from the fact that we do live in a man's world.
The female prison population faces challenges that male prisoners do not. Complaining about an article written about female prisoners -- a perfectly legitimate point of discussion -- is an unjustifiable criticism. Attempting to divert the discussion by quoting sentencing statistics is just that.