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Are women more guilty then we’d like to believe?
I believe that in our society women are held to different more lenient standards then men, mainly because they are viewed as nurturers, caretakers and the thought of them being violent and evil is not something that society is ready to accept. Women have been killing their husbands for centuries, as we see in Lisa Downing’s, Murder in the Feminine article, where she talks about several women who committed murder such as, Marie Lafarge and Marie Fortune. I believe there are gender biases in the judicial system, when a man kills someone or commits some sort of violent, heinous crime he is made out to be a monster, a person who must be removed from society immediately, sometimes even by execution. If a women were to commit the same crime, she would not be labeled a monster by all right away, people would begin to examine the reasons why she committed the crime. No one wants to come out and flat out say she’s a violent murdered who should be executed for her crimes! People start to attribute her acts to her childhood, various forms of abuse she suffered, and things like that, while trying to circumvent the fact that she in fact did commit this crime. In the clip that I am going to show, How likely are women to commit violent acts an expert criminal intelligence analyst goes to say, what I already believe, which is that there are plenty of women out there who can kill, steal, shoot, gang bang, sell drugs, and commit any violent and brutal act as well if not better then any man could and I feel they should be prosecuted equally and accordingly.
Bad Girls
According to this article the number of female offenders seems to be on the rise. What’s interesting about this growing trend is that crimes committed by women tend to be more noticed than those committed by men independently from any other categories such as race, age, crime type, motive, etc.
One of the books mentioned in the article is Good Girls Gone Bad , by Susan Nadler in which the author interviews a few women prisoners and finds out that for the most part the interviewees seem to “fit into one of several categories.” These categories range anywhere from; acting out, snapping, addiction to obsession. But aren’t these the same categories for men? I would think so, however it’s been recorded that female offenders are harshly punished. In some cases even for crimes a lot less violent than those committed by males. Please note that I’m not trying to say they shouldn’t be punished, my opinion is simply that if someone breaks the law the punishment should be THE SAME regardless of the offender’s gender.
Another thing that’s important to understand and which the author of the book doesn’t touch on is, as Katherine Ramsland mentions, some women; in fact many women end up behind bars because they just simply couldn’t take it anymore. Abused wives, moms, girlfriends reach the same breaking point anybody else does after the abuse has gone a little too far. Whether the abuse is physical or not it NEEDS to stop at some point and when nothing else works violence seems to cut it.
Personally it is very bothersome how societies view women criminals. Instead of acting as if the world is ending because a woman is the victimizer, we must learn that purposely hurting another human being, regardless of who did it, it’s still an act of violence that should under no circumstances be tolerated.
Iraqs Women Only Prison
I couldnt help but write about this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEtYkUuzcY I came across while searching for female crime videos. This video is about Iraq women in prison and I found it very interesting that none of these women knew why they got arrested. Many of them want to plead their cases but they are not given the opportunity to do so. They also keep saying that their husbands were accused of terrorism but they were the ones who got arrested. Also, what shocked me was that their children were also in the jail cells with them. They are raising these children in a jail. I fear that once these children are released with the mothers, how will they act in society? It will be a very difficult transition for them to get accustomed to everyday life when all they ever knew was life behind bars.
In class we were talking about how females who commit crimes are viewed as monsters because in the U.S. we view women as nurturing and gentle human beings as opposed to men who are viewed as rough and daring and are capable of a killing; in Iraq its the very opposite. With terrorism currently taking place around the world, it shocks me that these terrorists are running freely and commiting mass murders, but their wives are the ones being captured and put to serve in jail without a reason. Even as the women were pleading to Iraqs Vice President, it seemed to me that he couldnt care less about what the women wanted or had to say. The women were crying and wanted help, but he wanted them to be quiet and didnt want to hear it. If the Vice President of Iraq doesnt care, why would the men in their society care? I think its very messed up for these women to live that kind of life. It seems to me that in Iraq, the innocent are in jail and the monsters are running around town free.
Is the Scale Really Balanced?
When I was looking for articles about women criminals I stumbled upon one which states how judges were ordered to show more mercy on women criminals when deciding sentences. According to the article, women criminals are poorly educated, have not committed violence and have children to look after. However, in a society where we look at men and women as equal, I ask myself is this possible? I guess that men and women are held to a different standard. To tie Lombroso into this he has said that women are the inferior sex and their main goal is to achieve maternity, their sole purpose of living and a women’s greatest achievement, however why is this consideration constantly should be taken into account with all these cases. We must consider that there are outliers in all cases against women criminals, not all women have that nurturing, maternal instinct about them. Shouldn’t courts look at the other side of this; what about the men who have children at home to take care of, who have more nurturing instincts than some women, why don’t the court take this into consideration as well the way they do with women. Are women truly at a disadvantage, are they the inferior sex, as stated by Lombroso. It looks as women are getting more of the benefit of the doubt and getting off easier. So I ask you to think about are women truly the inferior sex in society today, maybe if Lombroso was part of today’s society where supposedly men and women are supposed to be treated as equals, he might think different, he might think perhaps men are the inferior sex ?
