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#todayin: rape culture
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 31, 2016In the week leading up to Christmas, I had a lot of festive-type things on my to-do list. Purchasing gifts, finally putting up the tree, and preparing to go away to visit family. But that’s not what I...
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#womenslives: From Emma Gray on the Huffpo
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 20, 2016From Emma Gray on the Huffpo (emphasis added): On Friday afternoon, a judge ruled against Kesha’s request to be released from her contract with Sony. That contract commits the 28-year-old pop star to...
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#womenslives: violence against women and technology
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 11, 2016Anastasia Powell (Senior Research and ARC DECRA Fellow, Justice and Legal Studies, RMIT University) on violence against women and technology. There are some useful stats too, for those who like/ need ...
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#research: Exposure to nature may reduce crime, strengthen communities (on @newrepublic)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 22, 2015As urbanization, population growth and the rampant destruction of the natural world increase, human beings have become more and more isolated from nature—and at a significant cost. Spending time in n...
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#womensstories: Pregnant Behind Bars: How Expectant Mothers’ Lives are Under Threat
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / October 26, 2015For more in this series, see In These Times. Write-up below from msmagazine.Imagine being pregnant and hungry. Always hungry. Now imagine being hungry and locked in a room, unable to access food, for ...
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#todayin: misogyny: Mass Killings in the US: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 12, 2015This is a really well put together post about the links between (toxic) masculinity and mass killings in the US. I didn’t know before reading it that most victims of mass killings are women. I d...
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#research: women, particularly women of colour, bear costs of mass incarceration
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 17, 2015A groundbreaking new report (from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design) surveyed former prisoners and their families in 14 states* and found that the tr...
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#research: The Juvenile Justice System is Failing Girls
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 28, 2015This piece is about girls in the US but the same issues apply here in Britain. Young girls who come into contact with the criminal justice/ juvenile justice system here are also more likely than boys ...
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womensstories: ‘I came to the UK and I was turned into a prostitute’
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 24, 2015Ellie: ‘Putting trafficked people in prison – that is the worst part of it’When Ellie, 32, describes the first part of her life, she races through the disturbing details in a neutral tone; the problem...
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#todayin: rape culture: #research: Study: one in 10 male college students have committed rape
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 17, 2015Building upon findings from a previous study which found that 63% of campus rapists were repeat offenders, a new study has found that “only” one-quarter of college men admit to rape more t...
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#womensstories: ““Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized…”
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 16, 2015“Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized, reinforcing the sexual abuse to prison pipeline…. The most common crimes for which girls are arrested — including running away, ...
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#womensstories: Girls’ stories: the sexual abuse to prison pipeline
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 13, 2015From the report: Sasha was raped as a high school student. When news of the rape was circulated in social media, she was ridiculed by her classmates, making it impossible for her to feel safe at scho...
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE AND OFFENDING: A BROKEN SYSTEM
By feimineach / in #sociology, #thinkyblog / June 26, 2015On the 23rd of June, 2015, the Prison Reform Trust launched a review to examine why children aged 10 to 17 who are in care are more likely to offend than children who are not in care. [1] The Trust ac...
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#womenslives: Before You Watch “Orange is the New Black,” Here Are 5 Facts To Know about Pregnancy in Prison
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / June 11, 2015Season three of Orange is the New Black is (almost) here! While creator Jenji Kohan and the whole cast have been pretty tight-lipped about what we can expect this season, which starts streaming on Net...
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#research: New Study: 1 in 4 Women Have Family In Prison (US)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 29, 2015It gets worse. 1 in 2 Black women have an incarcerated family member.The Essie Justice Group writes:On May 20, 2015, the Du Bois Review published Racial Inequalities in Connectedness to Imprisoned Ind...
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#research: Support for the Death Penalty at Lowest Point in 40 Years
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 1, 2015Support for the Death Penalty at Lowest Point in 40 Years. While most Americans still favor the death penalty for those convicted of murder, support for capital punishment is lower than it has been i...
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#maleficentmisogyny: on dowry deaths
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 19, 2015One of my favourite columnists, Kalpana Sharma, produced a disturbing piece yesterday – on dowry deaths. Kalpana was appalled to read a headline, ‘One bride burnt every hour’. Not 50 years ago, but la...
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#maleficentmisogyny: study finds a third of college men would rape if they could get away with it
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / January 13, 2015I put this in the round-up on Sunday but I thought it deserved an airing of its own. A study of 73* US college men has found that nearly one-third of them would rape if (1) they thought they could get...
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#research: Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 8, 2014Linked below is a PDF of the Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest, summarising the latest evidence on drivers of VAWG and what works to...
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#research: Two thirds of women in the US have been street harassed
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 13, 2014I’m surprised, really, that it’s as low as 65%. That could be indication of how normalised and “acceptable” street harassment has become. From feministing:A new study commissioned by Stop Street Haras...
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