ScholarWorks at WMU Copyright (c) 2013 Western Michigan University All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.wmich.edu Recent documents in ScholarWorks at WMU en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:45:43 PDT 3600 The Domestic Violence Experiences of Women in Community Corrections http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/10 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/10 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:26 PDT A variety of studies indicate high rates of domestic violence in the backgrounds of women offenders. We examine and extend this work through a qualitative study of women on probation or parole in a western U.S. county. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 women who participated in a larger study in which only questionnaire data were collected. Participants completed a brief telephone interview about prior experiences of partner violence and then a face-to-face extensive in-person interview. In the analyses, several notable themes emerged regarding the women’s histories of child victimization, partner abuse, substance abuse, coercion into crime, and a lack of support services. Partner violence may play an important role in the genesis and maintenance of the criminality of a significant proportion of women, and should be acknowledged and addressed as part of programs intended to decrease recidivism.

]]> Rachel Bridges Whaley et al. Silenced Voices and Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help-Seeking http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/9 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:25 PDT Despite social and governmental responses to battering, many women continue to feel entrapped in abusive relationships. Using standpoint epistemology, this article examines the various aspects of help seeking, and the social and institutional responses to such efforts, through the narratives of 19 women in a domestic violence shelter. The findings are discussed with reference to Ptacek’s social entrapment perspective and Gondolf and Fisher’s survivor hypothesis, illustrating the socioeconomic and political context of the control tactics utilized by abusers and the structural impediments to battered women’s successful help seeking.

]]> Angela M. Moe Exploring the Literature on Relationships Between Gender Roles, Intimate Partner Violence, Occupational Status, and Organizational Benefits http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/8 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/8 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:23 PDT Studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) and work have been primarily conducted with women in low-wage low-status (LWLS) positions, as much of this research has focused on poverty, welfare, and homelessness. Although women in LWLS positions represent a large percentage of working women in the United States, it is also important to investigate experiences of women in high-wage high-status (HWHS) positions because a growing number of women are employed within such jobs. We propose gender role theory can be used to explain occurrences of IPV among women in HWHS positions and their utilization of organizational benefits. We suggest those in HWHS positions may be likely to have access to organizational benefits (e.g., medical, vacation, and flexible work schedules) and the ability to utilize the Family and Medical Leave Act. However, prevailing gender roles existing in organizations may render women in HWHS positions unlikely to use benefits or to take leave.

]]> Eileen Kwesiga et al. Criminalized Mothers: The Value and Devaluation of Parenthood from Behind Bars http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/7 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/7 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:22 PDT With the number of incarcerated women rising in the United States, scholarship and activism has focused more explicitly on the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs of the imprisoned population. This article focuses on motherhood and relies on qualitative life-history interviews with thirty women in a southwestern detention center. The women’s narratives are used to further our under-standing of the ways in which motherhood (1) resonates with incarcerated women’s self-perceptions, (2) relates to their motivations for crime, and (3) informs therapeutic programming within the carceral3 environment. In order to address the needs of a critical, yet often ignored, correctional population, we specifically examine the ways in which gender-specific therapeutic approaches may be applied to a jail facility where continuous, in-depth programming may be challenging due to inmate turn-around and unrest.

]]> Angela M. Moe et al. Women, Drugs, and Crime http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/6 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/6 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:21 PDT Throughout feminist criminological scholarship, a concerted effort has been focused on understanding the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs of criminalized women. It is clear that criminalized women enter the justice system with a host of interconnected experiences and issues, ranging from childhood victimization, sexual assault, and intimate partner abuse, to homelessness, poverty, and illness. While these contribute to the motivations and rationales of women’s criminality, they are often aggravated by drug addiction. In a variety of ways, drug use is interlaced with women’s efforts to survive on a daily basis. This article examines the role drugs play in criminalized women’s lives through the narratives of 30 incarcerated women.

]]> Angela M. Moe Abject Economics: The Effects of Battering and Violence on Women’s Work and Employability http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/5 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/5 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:20 PDT Research on the effects of battering on women’s lives has focused on poverty, homelessness, and welfare receipt, often centering on women who are uneducated or undereducated. The authors analyze how battering impacts the work and employability of women from various employment levels and backgrounds. Data were obtained through qualitative interviews with 19 residents of a domestic violence shelter, some of whom had obtained substantial education and built solid and lucrative careers prior to being abused. The women described instances in which battering had obstructed their ability to find work, maintain employment, and use their wages to establish greater economic independence and safety.

]]> Angela M. Moe et al. Mothering, Crime and Incarceration http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/4 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/4 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:18 PDT This article examines the relationships between mothering, crime, and incarceration through the narratives of thirty women incarcerated in a southwestern county jail. The responsibilities of child care, combined with the burdens of economic marginality and domestic violence, led some women to choose economic crimes or drug dealing as an alternative to hunger and homelessness. Other women, arrested for drug- or alcohol-related crimes, related their offenses to the psychological pain and despair resulting from loss of custody of their children. Many women were incarcerated for minor probation violations that often related to the conflict between work, child care, and probation requirements. For all women with children, mothering represented both the burdens of an unequal sexual division of labor and opportunities for resistance to marginalization and hopelessness.

]]> Kathleen J. Ferraro et al. Malign Neglect or Benign Respect: Women’s Health Care in a Carceral Setting http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/3 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sociology_pubs/3 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:17 PDT A central tenet of feminist criminological scholarship is the examination of women’s experiences with crime and incarceration through their own narratives. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty jailed women, this article examines carceral conditions through the critical lens of the female inmate. Highlighted in this article is the availability and quality of health care in a detention center in Arizona. The findings indicate a contentious duality, exposing both heinous neglect and benign solicitude in the care delivered to jailed women. This duality is situated within the dismal health care system available to indigent women in the region.

]]> Angela M. Moe et al. Alumni Magazine http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/alumni_magazine/2 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/alumni_magazine/2 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:53:17 PDT The President's Page

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