The Medicalization of Female Deviance &amp; Criminality

Jaclyn Tompalski,Victoria Romanik

doi:10.29173/invoke48971

Abstract

The Medicalization of Female Deviance & Criminality

Highlights

In a correctional system geared towards male offenders, women face many difficulties when they become criminalized
Women were often considered to be weak and vulnerable to mental disorders when female hysteria was treated as a legitimate medical condition (p. 110)
From the existence of female hysteria as a legitimate medical condition throughout the course of history to the overreliance on psychotropic medication to subdue imprisoned women, the extent of the medical control exerted over imprisoned women is intense and unwavering

Summary

Introduction

In a correctional system geared towards male offenders, women face many difficulties when they become criminalized. Outside the Prison Walls: Women and women’s needs have been medicalized for centuries. Women were often considered to be weak and vulnerable to mental disorders when female hysteria was treated as a legitimate medical condition

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