Women who are punished are seen as more aberrant and threatening than men

Evidence

There has always been a tendency to regard those women who have been publicly punished by the state for their misbehaviors as significantly more aberrant and far more threatening to society than their numerous male counterparts. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 174

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most men in patriarchal society resent women who abandon passive roles — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 231; Deviant men are constructed as criminal while deviant women are constructed as insane. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 176; Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 175 (+6 more)

Related

• Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons (similarity 0.89)
• Women face unacknowledged state punishment outside formal prison (similarity 0.88)
• Deviant men are constructed as criminal while deviant women are constructed as insane. (similarity 0.86)
• Female criminals are seen as moral transgressors, not contract violators (similarity 0.84)
• Male prisons functioning as the punishment norm drives women’s conditions toward greater repression. (similarity 0.82)
• Ignoring women prisoners makes the operation of state punishment partly illegible (similarity 0.82)
• Imprisoning women who resist abusers cannot solve intimate violence (similarity 0.82)
• Sexual abuse operates as an institutionalized, unsanctioned dimension of women’s punishment. (similarity 0.82)
• Men’s prisons are gendered institutions, not the norm against which women’s prisons are judged (similarity 0.82)
• Formalistic equality with male prisons makes women’s prisons more repressive, not less. (similarity 0.79)
• Punishments inflicted on women and slaves were systematically excluded from prison reformers’ agenda. (similarity 0.79)
• Women’s sexual deviance threatens the collectivity while men’s is a peccadillo (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Female criminals are seen as moral transgressors, not contract violators #expands (0.70)
• Female convicts were seen as beyond redemption, males as reformable #expands (0.65)