Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2 DEC 2018 · My proposed project is about the ways in which African American women in the United States are criminally targeted at a higher rate than white women, and are therefore treated differently within the prison system. This is an important problem because we tend to focus on the incarceration rates of Black men, but never of Black women. The hyper-criminalization of Black women is equally as detrimental to the Black community. Previous literature suggests that women prisoners make up a very small percentage of the prison population within the United States, and that the criminalization of men of color is more detrimental to the African American community. On the other hand, some scholars find that women of color are among the fastest growing population within prisons in the United States, and are predisposed to committing crimes, as compared to their white counterparts. Additionally, the Black woman’s incarceration has unique consequences for the Black community and the Black family due to her significant role as mother, and these consequences are often not discussed and not acknowledged because we tend to focus on the incarceration rates of their male counterparts.
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Author | Briahna Shaniuk |
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