Race, Gender and Crime
My thoughts
Blacks are targeted because they are seen as more aggressive
Mental illness could be high due to high levels of domestic abuse and sexual assault in women who are incarcerated.
Takeaways
Each article brings up a lot of different statistics on crime, female crime, and black female crime.
Articles
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf
Higher levels of property and drug crime (non-violent crimes)
http://www.csosa.gov/newsmedia/factsheets/statistics-on-women-offenders-2014.pdf
On every measure of drug use, women offenders in state prison reported
higher usage (40 percent) compared to males (32 percent).
Approximately 7 in 10 women under correctional
sanction have minor children, more than 1,300.000 children.
: 57.2 percent of females report abuse before admission to state
prison versus 16.1 percent of males. 39.0 percent of female state prison inmates
report that they were sexually abused before admission to state prison versus 5.8
percent of males
Nearly 6 in 10 women in state prisons had
experienced physical or sexual abuse in the past. 69 percent reported that the
assault occurred before age 18.
Female inmates had higher rates of mental health problems than
male inmates
http://www.stephaniecovington.com/assets/files/4.pdf
Women of color, especially African-Americans, are disproportionately
incarcerated in the United States
