Women and Desistance

Question 1

Why is intersectionality important in women and desistance

Answer 1

interplay between gender and race inequalities that affects BAME women

Question 2

What is the problem in research of wpmen and desistance

Answer 2

very little research - all focused on men

Question 3

what is a ‘skeleton script’ (Rumgay, 2004)

Answer 3

provide people with socially recognised behavioural routines, triggered by interpersonal or environmental queues

Question 4

Why do women’s experiences of desistance differ from men’s?

Answer 4

gendered experiences of social control and the ability to practice agency

Question 5

Debates on marriage for women

Answer 5

Giordano e.a. - s&L (1993) and s (2003) say a settled job and marriage increase social controls
jamieson e.a - respectability more important for women, gendered violence and DA disrupt female social bonds

Question 6

Harding (2021) womens desistance in practice

Answer 6

gendered characteristics for desistance
motherhood
wife/relationships
homemaking
‘healthy choices’ and well-being

Question 7

what stigma can cause failure to desist amongst women

Answer 7

‘good woman’ - failing to live up to this construction through criminalisation and victimisation

Question 8

Double Deviance

Answer 8

Women are punished for breaking social contract, and gender contract