Deviant men are constructed as criminal while deviant women are constructed as insane.

Evidence

Studies indicating that women have been even more likely to end up in mental facilities than men suggest that while jails and prisons have been dominant institutions for the control of men, mental institutions have served a similar purpose for women. That is, deviant men have been constructed as criminal, while deviant women have been constructed as insane. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s history of madness and the gendered division of social control institutions. — connects to: Women who are punished are seen as more aberrant and threatening than men — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 174; Societal control culture responds differently based on stereotypes of deviance. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 339; Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 175 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces the gendered criminal/insane dichotomy that structures the rest of the chapter’s argument.

Broader Connections

• Societal control culture responds differently based on stereotypes of deviance. #expands (0.80) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 339
• Women who are punished are seen as more aberrant and threatening than men #expands (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 174
• Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons #expands (0.70) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 175
• Female criminals are seen as moral transgressors, not contract violators #expands (0.65)