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Who are the prisoners ?

Explore the complex issue of gender discrimination in prisons, questioning societal beliefs and policies. Discover statistics, social theories, and global perspectives on this pressing topic.

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Who are the prisoners ?

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  1. Who are theprisoners? António Pedro Dores, June 2017

  2. Discrimination • Gender prisondiscriminationisitdeeperthanrace, nationalityoreven age discrimination? • Whatisgender? Is notitthe reverse of social differentiation? • Are theretwogendersorone elite genderandalltherestalike?

  3. Index • Prisoners are notthepoor • Moral andviolence • Social theoryandviolence • Sociologicalpragmatics in time oftransformations

  4. Prisonrevolvingdoors

  5. Sexofprisoners Source: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp Source: http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/female-prisoners?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All

  6. Prisoners compare poorpeople Source: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Poverty_Statistics_Mexico_2013.pdf and http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/study-highlights-overcrowding-and-violence-in-mexicos-prisons Source: https://talkpoverty.org/poverty/ Source: https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/privacao-material-severa-em-portugal-acima-da-media-da-ue-apesar-de-recuo-eurostat_n911363 and http://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/populacao-em-risco-de-pobreza-mantemse-em-2014-mas-situacao-piorou-para-as-mulheres-4823454.html

  7. Who can assurethatmodernsocieties do not use humansacrifices, any more ? Photocredit: amantidellastoria.com

  8. Interpretationdependsonpointofview • Top down • Upstate – statistics as ifitwasthestatethatproducessocietysubsystems

  9. Whereand to whomprisons are more relevant? • Palestinians use April 17th as prisoner´sday, since 1974. Since 1967 till 2017, 20% ofthepopulationdidexperienceimprisonmentand 40% of male. SOURCE: esquerda.net • African-Americans 2,306 prisoners per 100,000; hispanic: 831 per 100,000; white 450 per 100,000 (2010) SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#Ethnicity

  10. Interpretationdependsonpointofview (II) • Bottomup • Social evolution – socialized terror versus confidencestatesofmind; Primo Levi´sThe Drowned and the Saved

  11. Social integrationandexclusion Mirror

  12. Discrimination • Leftandrighthandofthestate • Gender andchildren, mentallyill, addictedpeople, ethnicityand non-nationals, class, • Reactionofthestateandsociety to crime ororganizationbuildingprocess, dividing to rule?

  13. Equalityand justice • Impunity anddiscriminationinforcementby criminal justice

  14. Fim http://iscte.pt/~apad http://iscte.pt/~apad/estesp http://iscte.pt/~apad/estesp/trilogia.htm

  15. Equalityand justice • FransDuWaalchimpazee´s • SpiritLevel • Impunity anddiscriminationreinforcementby criminal justice

  16. Integrationandexclusion • Powerof marginal waysofliving • Urbanpowertechnique • Bridges betweenpowerful, submissionandmarginality • Post-traumatic stress disorderandthepoliticalandpolicemanipulationofthathiddenandshydisease

  17. Is it a humanitarianora social problem? • Harmororganizationproblem? • Policyand management solutionor cultural andcivilizationalevolution? • Whatkindof links do societiesacceptanddevelopwith crime? • Avoidingorimprovingorabolishing penal politicsandlaw?

  18. 21 thousandpeople die daylyofhanger(http://www.poverty.com)

  19. Improvingisenough? • 2002, in thelast 30 years, in 49 poorest countries, doble thenumberofpeoplelivingwithunder 1 dólar per day. UN estimatesgrowtill 420 millionsby 2015 (http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2002/020618_unctadae.shtml) • 2015, UN saythat 800 millionpeopleallovertheworldlivingunder 1,25 dólar per dayrepresentshalfofthenumberby 1990.

  20. Who are theprisoners? • “From 2000 to 2015, the total prison population of Oceania increased by 59%, while that of the Americas increased by 41%; that of Asia by 29%; and that of Africa by 15%. Europe, in contrast, saw a 21% fall in total prisoner numbers”. Jessica Jacobson, Catherine Heard and Helen Fair (2017) PRISON: Evidence of its use and over-use from around the world, London, Institute for Criminal Policy Research and Fair Trail :vii

  21. Moral relationsstate-society

  22. Social relationsbetweenpowerandcare Moralistic (submission) Open (marginal) Discriminatory (revolution) Autoritarian (repression) Europe US/Australia Conflict Less open sacrifice Violence More open sacrifice

  23. Social organizationprinciple Elitism / desire Dissimulation / cognitive Misogyny / affection Misogyny / domestic Dissimulation / humiliation Elitism / sacrificial

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