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The National Association of Female Correction Officers (NAFCO) is non profit organization and their main purpose to improve the working conditions for all female correctional officers that are working in jails, prisons, and correctional facilities around the United States. On their legislative agenda they are trying to secures and pass legislation to protect women correctional officers from being raped and harassed while being on the job.
The proposal that they are trying to get passed the in the Rape and Sexual Assault of Female Correctional officers elimination act of 2008. In this act they will make rape and sexual assault of female officers a top priority. The are also making it a zero tolerance policy of incidents that involve sexual assault and rape. They are producing high standards, creating and implementing more data on incidents, increase accountability for all people to report incidents, make mandatory prosecution, and provide grands for female officers to get safety and defence equipment.
The book, like the NAFCO is written to address these problems within the prison, point them out, give the public information and to help progress and change to make the occupation as a correctional officer better. The goal was to create a less genderized organizational environment. These book was created and written to help lessen and get rid of gender and inequality to create a better portrayal of prison life, create the ideal of less violent images and women were to be equal. these book brought the stories of the women and what they were going through out into the public trying to help their occupational needs. The book along with the NAFCO are trying to help these women by creating a more knowledgeable and safe environment for them.
Also the book is written for an informational and helpful standard. The book serves as an outlet and guide to help these men and women to know what the expect and how to handle certain situations. It served as a way to move away from the stereotyping of women and to help them gain power and respect. This book along with the NAFCO was made and implemented to change and improve the life of the women that are making a difference and taking non traditional roles. They were created to help and protect them.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
UNIT C: Blog 20
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The prisoner chief. a women, who was described in two different ways: one as women that some think can not handle her situation and a women as strict and is right for the job because she got the hostage out alive. A only draw out event that resulted in the tower being taken. A women, Lois, was held for 15 days treated as inhuman, making her good to the bathroom in from of him, asking he r if she was ready to die and giving her hope just so he could take it away.
The hostage situation was a violent, horrible, and demeaning act of rage and hate that describes how Britton talks about these events in the book. In these types of situation the person taking the person treats them as an animal making them do things that they would never do. Always in this situation the person that in taken hostage will have to leave with these moments for the rest of their lives. These people will be haunted by what these people did or them and will want need for them to pay for it. Lois said going to court was her therapy and wanted and she needed him to pay for what he did to her. These 15 days will never be forgotten and changed her for the rest of her life. It hurt her so much that she can not even talk about it anymore because it brings up all of the emotions.
A prison is a total institution. This means that the people there are the prisoners are there on a involuntary basis. They are being help their for a crime or some degree that they committed. This total institution in question is the Lewis Prison located in Arizona. Some problems that were being faced were that they couldn't get the phones to work from one part of the prison to the other, they didn't have a layout of the tower,they did know how to break the glass in order to get a "kill shot" and they could not see or hear anything that was going on inside of the tower.
This hostage situation relates and describes some typical scenarios that are layout for us in Britton. In the hostage situation Lois was raped, beaten, and almost pushed to the edge of killing herself within the 15 days that she spend in the tower. The person that held her there was horrible, revengeful, and acting out of rage and hate. As described in the book and information from our readings prison life and situations play out all in the same way. In prisons women are sexually assaulted, their is the element of violence, and unsafely. One great thing that stands out is the administrator. In 1995 there were no top administrators that were female and our chief in Arizona is now female.
Prisons are gendered organizations because of their structures, functions, how they were built, the hours, what they have to deal with in an every day situation. Women have been breaking their way into this field of correctional officers for some time now, but men in this field wills till look at them the same. some women will turn down opportunities because of their family and will have juggling and crossing over from the private to the personal because the hard essential working two Jobs. Women are doing more, but yet they are not given the respect the deserve. The structuring of the correctional officers position is masculine and while women are breaking into this field and doing the same things the are still help with caution.
The occupation of a correctional officers is an engendered occupation. This is an occupation that is still going through transitions and changes. Women are breaking into this field, are successful, but are still looked at differently than their male counterparts. The process is a slow. Women are still having to prove themselves an get them same opportunities and rules as the males.
The prisoner chief. a women, who was described in two different ways: one as women that some think can not handle her situation and a women as strict and is right for the job because she got the hostage out alive. A only draw out event that resulted in the tower being taken. A women, Lois, was held for 15 days treated as inhuman, making her good to the bathroom in from of him, asking he r if she was ready to die and giving her hope just so he could take it away.
The hostage situation was a violent, horrible, and demeaning act of rage and hate that describes how Britton talks about these events in the book. In these types of situation the person taking the person treats them as an animal making them do things that they would never do. Always in this situation the person that in taken hostage will have to leave with these moments for the rest of their lives. These people will be haunted by what these people did or them and will want need for them to pay for it. Lois said going to court was her therapy and wanted and she needed him to pay for what he did to her. These 15 days will never be forgotten and changed her for the rest of her life. It hurt her so much that she can not even talk about it anymore because it brings up all of the emotions.
A prison is a total institution. This means that the people there are the prisoners are there on a involuntary basis. They are being help their for a crime or some degree that they committed. This total institution in question is the Lewis Prison located in Arizona. Some problems that were being faced were that they couldn't get the phones to work from one part of the prison to the other, they didn't have a layout of the tower,they did know how to break the glass in order to get a "kill shot" and they could not see or hear anything that was going on inside of the tower.
This hostage situation relates and describes some typical scenarios that are layout for us in Britton. In the hostage situation Lois was raped, beaten, and almost pushed to the edge of killing herself within the 15 days that she spend in the tower. The person that held her there was horrible, revengeful, and acting out of rage and hate. As described in the book and information from our readings prison life and situations play out all in the same way. In prisons women are sexually assaulted, their is the element of violence, and unsafely. One great thing that stands out is the administrator. In 1995 there were no top administrators that were female and our chief in Arizona is now female.
Prisons are gendered organizations because of their structures, functions, how they were built, the hours, what they have to deal with in an every day situation. Women have been breaking their way into this field of correctional officers for some time now, but men in this field wills till look at them the same. some women will turn down opportunities because of their family and will have juggling and crossing over from the private to the personal because the hard essential working two Jobs. Women are doing more, but yet they are not given the respect the deserve. The structuring of the correctional officers position is masculine and while women are breaking into this field and doing the same things the are still help with caution.
The occupation of a correctional officers is an engendered occupation. This is an occupation that is still going through transitions and changes. Women are breaking into this field, are successful, but are still looked at differently than their male counterparts. The process is a slow. Women are still having to prove themselves an get them same opportunities and rules as the males.
UNIT C: Blog 19
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An actress, Geena Davis, in this video talks about the empowerment of women through media imaging. She talks about how women were changed by the power of these roles of women being empowered and changing the roles of genders by crossing over into male dominated occupations. This can be show in the movie A League of their Own. Women, an especially younger girls, through the power of media gained the power and motivation to break into male dominated roles such as sports in playing baseball. she also touched on the influences of animated children's cartoon characters that reinforced the traditional views on male and female dominate roles. A couple of the characters in which she talks about our Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse in which reinforced the traditional roles of females and all she said she could remember them saying was that they wanted to go shopping and didn't really do that much. They played a feminine character that does not exert that much other traits other than simple feminine stereotypes.
There is a huge problem with how young girls are getting their information because the media is getting these girls the wrong idea and sending them a very limited and stereotyped image of they they should act. In the video is states that 87 percent of Senior girls in high school are not happy with their body and 1/3 of third graders have been on a diet. All if not most of all female cartoon characters are stereotyped and sexualized.
Another horrible example of cartoon stereotyping is of the Smurfs. I did not know this, but was shocked to find out the story of the girl smurf from the video. The storu how there were not female smurfs and then one finally got added. This girl smurf was depicted as having ugly eye lashed, ugly having ugly hair and evil. She was given plastic smurfing and changed into the "blond bombshell" that she is today and then, and only then was she liked and accepted.
With "See Jane" Genna Davis along with another foundation created and analyzed the largest investigation of G rated movies. Out of these G rated movies 3 out 4 characters were males and the few female characters in the movies were stereotyped. See Jane's goal is to increase the female characters and to reduce the stereotyping of these characters.
This video is just one more example and way for us to see stereotyping in our culture. This example is one that needs to be dealt with because they are makes impressionable stereotypes to young females that could potentially Carry with them for the rest of their lives. These characters are painting a pictures that women are weak, can not confront issues, not physical, do not stand out for themselves, and all around mostly only care about personal appearance issues. It is easy to see from the information about body images that young girls are taking and carrying these ideals. An example from this is from our readings that women are not "fit" to be correctional officers because they are seen as more fragile and can not handle the inmates. As i talked about before rules such as not being able to have an physical contact with inmates for women shows that people think of women differently. There is a stereotype that women can not handle themselves and can not handle a job as a correctional officer.
On the other hand males attitudes to handle violence is the opposite of what women can handle. Males are associated with dominance and masculine traits and people think that all men can handle being a correctional officer. Women, because of their stereotype are seen as weak and :should be grateful for protection from their males" (Ch. 6). Women gain control by gaining gender identity and equality in their job. Correctional Officers that are women treat all inmates the same, do not feel an different more more threatened by males, do not see males any different, they take dominating positions, they feel women are more problems and do not think gender is an issue. The women are harder on the inmates that the Male officers. Women are showing the men that they can take care of themselves and can do the job just as good as them or even better by being stricter on the inmates (ch. 6).
An actress, Geena Davis, in this video talks about the empowerment of women through media imaging. She talks about how women were changed by the power of these roles of women being empowered and changing the roles of genders by crossing over into male dominated occupations. This can be show in the movie A League of their Own. Women, an especially younger girls, through the power of media gained the power and motivation to break into male dominated roles such as sports in playing baseball. she also touched on the influences of animated children's cartoon characters that reinforced the traditional views on male and female dominate roles. A couple of the characters in which she talks about our Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse in which reinforced the traditional roles of females and all she said she could remember them saying was that they wanted to go shopping and didn't really do that much. They played a feminine character that does not exert that much other traits other than simple feminine stereotypes.
There is a huge problem with how young girls are getting their information because the media is getting these girls the wrong idea and sending them a very limited and stereotyped image of they they should act. In the video is states that 87 percent of Senior girls in high school are not happy with their body and 1/3 of third graders have been on a diet. All if not most of all female cartoon characters are stereotyped and sexualized.
Another horrible example of cartoon stereotyping is of the Smurfs. I did not know this, but was shocked to find out the story of the girl smurf from the video. The storu how there were not female smurfs and then one finally got added. This girl smurf was depicted as having ugly eye lashed, ugly having ugly hair and evil. She was given plastic smurfing and changed into the "blond bombshell" that she is today and then, and only then was she liked and accepted.
With "See Jane" Genna Davis along with another foundation created and analyzed the largest investigation of G rated movies. Out of these G rated movies 3 out 4 characters were males and the few female characters in the movies were stereotyped. See Jane's goal is to increase the female characters and to reduce the stereotyping of these characters.
This video is just one more example and way for us to see stereotyping in our culture. This example is one that needs to be dealt with because they are makes impressionable stereotypes to young females that could potentially Carry with them for the rest of their lives. These characters are painting a pictures that women are weak, can not confront issues, not physical, do not stand out for themselves, and all around mostly only care about personal appearance issues. It is easy to see from the information about body images that young girls are taking and carrying these ideals. An example from this is from our readings that women are not "fit" to be correctional officers because they are seen as more fragile and can not handle the inmates. As i talked about before rules such as not being able to have an physical contact with inmates for women shows that people think of women differently. There is a stereotype that women can not handle themselves and can not handle a job as a correctional officer.
On the other hand males attitudes to handle violence is the opposite of what women can handle. Males are associated with dominance and masculine traits and people think that all men can handle being a correctional officer. Women, because of their stereotype are seen as weak and :should be grateful for protection from their males" (Ch. 6). Women gain control by gaining gender identity and equality in their job. Correctional Officers that are women treat all inmates the same, do not feel an different more more threatened by males, do not see males any different, they take dominating positions, they feel women are more problems and do not think gender is an issue. The women are harder on the inmates that the Male officers. Women are showing the men that they can take care of themselves and can do the job just as good as them or even better by being stricter on the inmates (ch. 6).
UNIT C: Blog 18
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A job as a correctional office is a that can be very scary and lots of men and women can fear this position ( video Women correctional officers). one way in which the occupation as a correctional officer stay some what more safe is that they train their officers with traits that would seem more masculine. These officers are trained with traits to know how to deal with these inmates such as tactics they protect them because a job in a prison can include fights and situations where officers and inmates are put in bad situations where they have to have the skills to deal with these people. All officers men and women are given the same training. They are are trained with the abilities to use hand gun, self defence, and physical ability tests. Most if not all most all of the training is hands on training and all the officers say that they learned alot of their knowledge from on the job events (Ch4.)
Federal correctional officers need 200 hours of training and states differences, but they need 160 hours of training. The training includes as a stated before self defence, fire arm training, training with chemical agents, first aid, intervention, physical tests, written tests, and standard for when they can use force. These skills and training tend to reinforce the idea that this is a masculine occupation because the skills ans traits one must learn are more geared toward more masculine traits (ch. 4). The "inflated accounts of violence" account for the masculizing of the correctional Officer's Occupation. these means that even though their is violence their is a somewhat inflated projection of how much actually goes on This reinforcement of the stereotype is seen in the word prison because prison means or is always referring to male prisons. When people think of prisons they always picture male prisons.(PowerPoint 4 & 5).
When looking at male and female prisons and prisoners correctional officers usually prefer to deal with male inmates. This is due to the fact the female inmates are emotional (Power Point). This can be seen in the Locked up video and how much emotion plays into the lives of these inmates. The bonds ans relationships between these women make them emotional, harder to deal with and a scary situation because they stop thinking about them and the consequences and would do anything for the other or to be with the other person (Locked up video). Male prisons are just as bad and female, but female prisoners sometimes bring in different elements that the correctional officers have to deal with. In female prisons there are emotions, "cat fights" and they fight about the littlest details (Ch. 5). As discussed in the locked up video a prison says that the women are on edge and they will start fights about anything and about the smallest words said to them (Locked up). The women are manipulative and question authority. Like the two women from the locked up video these two women, the couple, would use the guards and manipulate them. Another factor that adds to women's prisons is that women are pretty. These factor makes females prisons worse than males is because they are worried, obsessed, and cause problems because they are thinking about their appearance and what the officers see as "trivial" and not important ( Ch. 5).
A job as a correctional office is a that can be very scary and lots of men and women can fear this position ( video Women correctional officers). one way in which the occupation as a correctional officer stay some what more safe is that they train their officers with traits that would seem more masculine. These officers are trained with traits to know how to deal with these inmates such as tactics they protect them because a job in a prison can include fights and situations where officers and inmates are put in bad situations where they have to have the skills to deal with these people. All officers men and women are given the same training. They are are trained with the abilities to use hand gun, self defence, and physical ability tests. Most if not all most all of the training is hands on training and all the officers say that they learned alot of their knowledge from on the job events (Ch4.)
Federal correctional officers need 200 hours of training and states differences, but they need 160 hours of training. The training includes as a stated before self defence, fire arm training, training with chemical agents, first aid, intervention, physical tests, written tests, and standard for when they can use force. These skills and training tend to reinforce the idea that this is a masculine occupation because the skills ans traits one must learn are more geared toward more masculine traits (ch. 4). The "inflated accounts of violence" account for the masculizing of the correctional Officer's Occupation. these means that even though their is violence their is a somewhat inflated projection of how much actually goes on This reinforcement of the stereotype is seen in the word prison because prison means or is always referring to male prisons. When people think of prisons they always picture male prisons.(PowerPoint 4 & 5).
When looking at male and female prisons and prisoners correctional officers usually prefer to deal with male inmates. This is due to the fact the female inmates are emotional (Power Point). This can be seen in the Locked up video and how much emotion plays into the lives of these inmates. The bonds ans relationships between these women make them emotional, harder to deal with and a scary situation because they stop thinking about them and the consequences and would do anything for the other or to be with the other person (Locked up video). Male prisons are just as bad and female, but female prisoners sometimes bring in different elements that the correctional officers have to deal with. In female prisons there are emotions, "cat fights" and they fight about the littlest details (Ch. 5). As discussed in the locked up video a prison says that the women are on edge and they will start fights about anything and about the smallest words said to them (Locked up). The women are manipulative and question authority. Like the two women from the locked up video these two women, the couple, would use the guards and manipulate them. Another factor that adds to women's prisons is that women are pretty. These factor makes females prisons worse than males is because they are worried, obsessed, and cause problems because they are thinking about their appearance and what the officers see as "trivial" and not important ( Ch. 5).
UNIT C: Blog 17
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In the video Locked up: these women are living life sentences, pairing off, and have committed federal crimes and are serving in a maximum security prison. The prison hold 1,100 prisoners. The warden states that their main goal is to make sure the women maintain their dignity, but they need to understand that they are in prison and are their to serve time for a crime that they have committed. This prison is for women only. One part of the prison is for solitary confinement. For correctional officers this area of the prison can be very dangerous (Locked up video).
One aspect that the video touches on is the lives of the inmates. One story was about a women locked up in single cell confinement and lost her child while serving and could not get out to go see her. The prison guards them selves tried to do everything they could to let her go, but it was stopped by officials from the top. Another story was about two inmates that would hustle and were actually are together intimately and are a couple (Locked up video).
One way in which correctional officers can cause problems in prisons is when they have relationships with the inmates. When the prison guards have relationships with the inmates the can cause security issues and just cross the line. If they have a relationship then they could be security issues with letting them smuggle things in (Locked up video). The book states this as a reason why relationships are a huge problem as well. The book states that officers that have "gone too far" and have sexually relationship with the inmates are at risk or will cause problems because they can supply them with "contraband." (Ch.5)
The view that prison guards have of the prisoners are they even though they have made mistakes they are still human. Another perception that officers have of the inmates is that they are too privileged ( Ch.5) This can be seen in the video as well. The Warden states the same exact quote about inmates. She states that these people are human and we need to give them the respect they need, but they still need to follow the rules and that they need to realize they are in here because the committed a crime and they are doing time for it. even though that the officers humanize these inmates at a certain level they are treating them as infants. At some level they have to limit them because when they committed their crime and were put into prison they knew they would give up some privileges. The guards have to watch over them, limit their activity, take their things away and some on ( Video Locked up). The book described their infantilizing in the same way. The book states that this job is such like when a day care. That these women have to take career of them and watch them (Ch. 5).
The race of an officer although as be in some arguments as trying to figure out if it plays a role in how they treat the inmates, they have made no conclusions are facts for this. The book states that some African American and officers of different races face different issues. It states that these officers still have to do the "dirty work." There has been no link for this data, but these correctional Officers some times have to face other issues such as relating to the prisoners. Some times they could feel as though they are "caught in the middle: and might feel sympathetic toward the inmates because they share a bond of ethnicity and race (ch, 5).
The process of disidentification learning to act and speak in a way as to show loyalty and obedience to the job of a correctional officers and not showing sympathy or relating to the inmates. This process is of the officers of different races and backgrounds that reinforce negative stereotypes to show occupational subculture as the "Language of the Overseers." In order for a correctional officer to do this, who are of the same race or ethnicity of the inmates, they are denying their own background and identity(Ch. 5).
The process of individuals finding and ending up in a career as a correctional officer does not start off with the dreams of becoming one, but when they do it can become a great opportunity.
In the video Locked up: these women are living life sentences, pairing off, and have committed federal crimes and are serving in a maximum security prison. The prison hold 1,100 prisoners. The warden states that their main goal is to make sure the women maintain their dignity, but they need to understand that they are in prison and are their to serve time for a crime that they have committed. This prison is for women only. One part of the prison is for solitary confinement. For correctional officers this area of the prison can be very dangerous (Locked up video).
One aspect that the video touches on is the lives of the inmates. One story was about a women locked up in single cell confinement and lost her child while serving and could not get out to go see her. The prison guards them selves tried to do everything they could to let her go, but it was stopped by officials from the top. Another story was about two inmates that would hustle and were actually are together intimately and are a couple (Locked up video).
One way in which correctional officers can cause problems in prisons is when they have relationships with the inmates. When the prison guards have relationships with the inmates the can cause security issues and just cross the line. If they have a relationship then they could be security issues with letting them smuggle things in (Locked up video). The book states this as a reason why relationships are a huge problem as well. The book states that officers that have "gone too far" and have sexually relationship with the inmates are at risk or will cause problems because they can supply them with "contraband." (Ch.5)
The view that prison guards have of the prisoners are they even though they have made mistakes they are still human. Another perception that officers have of the inmates is that they are too privileged ( Ch.5) This can be seen in the video as well. The Warden states the same exact quote about inmates. She states that these people are human and we need to give them the respect they need, but they still need to follow the rules and that they need to realize they are in here because the committed a crime and they are doing time for it. even though that the officers humanize these inmates at a certain level they are treating them as infants. At some level they have to limit them because when they committed their crime and were put into prison they knew they would give up some privileges. The guards have to watch over them, limit their activity, take their things away and some on ( Video Locked up). The book described their infantilizing in the same way. The book states that this job is such like when a day care. That these women have to take career of them and watch them (Ch. 5).
The race of an officer although as be in some arguments as trying to figure out if it plays a role in how they treat the inmates, they have made no conclusions are facts for this. The book states that some African American and officers of different races face different issues. It states that these officers still have to do the "dirty work." There has been no link for this data, but these correctional Officers some times have to face other issues such as relating to the prisoners. Some times they could feel as though they are "caught in the middle: and might feel sympathetic toward the inmates because they share a bond of ethnicity and race (ch, 5).
The process of disidentification learning to act and speak in a way as to show loyalty and obedience to the job of a correctional officers and not showing sympathy or relating to the inmates. This process is of the officers of different races and backgrounds that reinforce negative stereotypes to show occupational subculture as the "Language of the Overseers." In order for a correctional officer to do this, who are of the same race or ethnicity of the inmates, they are denying their own background and identity(Ch. 5).
The process of individuals finding and ending up in a career as a correctional officer does not start off with the dreams of becoming one, but when they do it can become a great opportunity.
UNIT C: Blog 16
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The path to becoming a correctional officer is a very different one because not very many kids. both men and women, dreams about working in this field. One study conducting showed that only 1 percent of the youth wanted to become a correctional officer. The career path for a person that ends up being a correctional officer is one that they aspire to do. Even though the demand for correctional officers is high it is still hard to find people to fill these positions. One part of this is due to the fact that the job is anything but high tech and "sophisticated." Another reason why this is not a coveted job is because correctional officers only make about just over $30,000 a year. This is $4,000 less than a high school male graduate which is not that much pay (PowerPoint 4 & 5).
For people that end up being correctional officers, this career was not what they dreamed about or thought they would have been doing. These people most likely wanted to be police officers or something along that line of work and they just landed or ended up as a correctional officer. For women trying to break into this field of work as a correctional officer, Police Officer, or something along these lines it was very difficult. Women were always seen as the "feminine" or softer and fragile type which did not go very well with the persona of a police officer. Police Officers were know to be macho, masculine and everything that described a "man's man"so this made it very difficult for women to act the part of prove themselves (Ch 4).
Past career paths for men ans women that are now correctional officers are very different and their paths are just as different. One main past career experience for people that end up being a correctional officer is being in the military. The military has the same structuring and skills a person needs to be a correctional officer. Like the military correctional officers have to be structured, have discipline and more. For individuals that end up being correctional officers 44 percent of men were in the military and only 7 percent women were in the military (ch.4).
Women tend to have a different career path. Women tend to have career paths such as clerical work, administrative support or sales, and service before they ended up as correctional officers. For women that end up as a correctional officer, they believe that they made a "natural" or simple progression into this field. They find the work good even though they never had any previous experiences with people such as those that are incarcerated. They found that their choice to be a correctional officer was not one that they thought they would be or dreamed about, but it was a simple and logical decision. One similarity that they found was that women who were child care providers said a job as a correctional officer was much like taking care of children. They found that they were doing the same things such as showing guidance, watching over them, make the behave, and watching over them when they ate or other simple tasks such as that (ch. 4).
Men and women are motivated to being a correctional officer for many different reasons. Some individuals are attracted to the job for pay and benefits because prisons are located in rural areas were other jobs would be hard to find. They find the pay which you only need a GED or High School Diploma to be good. Women, single mothers to be exact, find they benefits such as security and retirement plans to be a plus for having this occupation (ch. 4).
The path to becoming a correctional officer is a very different one because not very many kids. both men and women, dreams about working in this field. One study conducting showed that only 1 percent of the youth wanted to become a correctional officer. The career path for a person that ends up being a correctional officer is one that they aspire to do. Even though the demand for correctional officers is high it is still hard to find people to fill these positions. One part of this is due to the fact that the job is anything but high tech and "sophisticated." Another reason why this is not a coveted job is because correctional officers only make about just over $30,000 a year. This is $4,000 less than a high school male graduate which is not that much pay (PowerPoint 4 & 5).
For people that end up being correctional officers, this career was not what they dreamed about or thought they would have been doing. These people most likely wanted to be police officers or something along that line of work and they just landed or ended up as a correctional officer. For women trying to break into this field of work as a correctional officer, Police Officer, or something along these lines it was very difficult. Women were always seen as the "feminine" or softer and fragile type which did not go very well with the persona of a police officer. Police Officers were know to be macho, masculine and everything that described a "man's man"so this made it very difficult for women to act the part of prove themselves (Ch 4).
Past career paths for men ans women that are now correctional officers are very different and their paths are just as different. One main past career experience for people that end up being a correctional officer is being in the military. The military has the same structuring and skills a person needs to be a correctional officer. Like the military correctional officers have to be structured, have discipline and more. For individuals that end up being correctional officers 44 percent of men were in the military and only 7 percent women were in the military (ch.4).
Women tend to have a different career path. Women tend to have career paths such as clerical work, administrative support or sales, and service before they ended up as correctional officers. For women that end up as a correctional officer, they believe that they made a "natural" or simple progression into this field. They find the work good even though they never had any previous experiences with people such as those that are incarcerated. They found that their choice to be a correctional officer was not one that they thought they would be or dreamed about, but it was a simple and logical decision. One similarity that they found was that women who were child care providers said a job as a correctional officer was much like taking care of children. They found that they were doing the same things such as showing guidance, watching over them, make the behave, and watching over them when they ate or other simple tasks such as that (ch. 4).
Men and women are motivated to being a correctional officer for many different reasons. Some individuals are attracted to the job for pay and benefits because prisons are located in rural areas were other jobs would be hard to find. They find the pay which you only need a GED or High School Diploma to be good. Women, single mothers to be exact, find they benefits such as security and retirement plans to be a plus for having this occupation (ch. 4).
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
UNIT C: Blog 15
BLOG 15: Women Prisons
Across history prisons have a reputation of treating women very different than than treated the males. In the beginning of prisons when they first opened up men and women were all put into the same prisons. In these prisons women were a minority compared to the number of men. The way that they looked at women who were in prison was very different than they looked at men. For a women to be in prison, if she would have committed a crime, she must be more horrible than her male counterpart because she has gone past all of the female moral standards and traits. They thought that if a woman committed a crime she was much or insane and deranged than a man that committed the same crime (ch 2).
At this time women were no seen as free. Women did not have rights, did not have full citizenship and equal rights under the law. Women in prison were not paid attention to, thought were an annoyance, were more trouble than males, and were treated worse. Women were cramped in small attics, were not let outside for work or exercise. Until 1832 they had no supervision,there were account of abuse, accounts of pregnancy by inmates and guards. Women were ignored. Nineteenth century prisons women were called "nuisances." They said that "one female prisoner was like 20 male prisoners." Women in men's prisons were a problem because they thought they would create heterosexual disturbances. Women were help responsible for issues, scandals, and problems in the prison CH. 2)
After these issues the same stated to create female prisons which were attached to males prison's at times. By this time prisons started to create a more rehabilitation goal in mind. There were institution created that were used as rehabilitation centered run by matrons, female guards, that would rehabilitate not punish. Women were treated better, equal and held to the same standards. These new facilities were being hiring women because they though women could best be reformed by their own sex (Ch. 2).
The history of Arizona's prison can be seen some what like the reading. The prison was built in Yuma and like the prisons in the book it held men and women of all race, nationality, and ethnicity. Media also shaped the Yuma prison by saying no prisoner every escaped painting a picture of what it was like. Like in the reading from chapter 2 these movies painted the wrong picture because prisoners did in fact escape. Also like the reading prisoners at Florence helped and were contracted out to help build the prison and roads surrounding.
Across history prisons have a reputation of treating women very different than than treated the males. In the beginning of prisons when they first opened up men and women were all put into the same prisons. In these prisons women were a minority compared to the number of men. The way that they looked at women who were in prison was very different than they looked at men. For a women to be in prison, if she would have committed a crime, she must be more horrible than her male counterpart because she has gone past all of the female moral standards and traits. They thought that if a woman committed a crime she was much or insane and deranged than a man that committed the same crime (ch 2).
At this time women were no seen as free. Women did not have rights, did not have full citizenship and equal rights under the law. Women in prison were not paid attention to, thought were an annoyance, were more trouble than males, and were treated worse. Women were cramped in small attics, were not let outside for work or exercise. Until 1832 they had no supervision,there were account of abuse, accounts of pregnancy by inmates and guards. Women were ignored. Nineteenth century prisons women were called "nuisances." They said that "one female prisoner was like 20 male prisoners." Women in men's prisons were a problem because they thought they would create heterosexual disturbances. Women were help responsible for issues, scandals, and problems in the prison CH. 2)
After these issues the same stated to create female prisons which were attached to males prison's at times. By this time prisons started to create a more rehabilitation goal in mind. There were institution created that were used as rehabilitation centered run by matrons, female guards, that would rehabilitate not punish. Women were treated better, equal and held to the same standards. These new facilities were being hiring women because they though women could best be reformed by their own sex (Ch. 2).
The history of Arizona's prison can be seen some what like the reading. The prison was built in Yuma and like the prisons in the book it held men and women of all race, nationality, and ethnicity. Media also shaped the Yuma prison by saying no prisoner every escaped painting a picture of what it was like. Like in the reading from chapter 2 these movies painted the wrong picture because prisoners did in fact escape. Also like the reading prisoners at Florence helped and were contracted out to help build the prison and roads surrounding.
UNIT C: Blog 14
BLOG 14: Gendered Organizations
Britton Used Gendered Organizations to frame her research by stating this organizations at their root were not neutral. She stated that these organizations were gendered organizations through down to their roots, structures, and ideology so that is why it is so hard to get rid of these ideals and "traditional norms" about women as prison guards. Gendered organizations exist because of the combination of structure, culture, and agency. Gender in this institution is a social construction.
Gender through organizational structure. Prison organizations are built on divisions of labor between a private and public region. Women are the ones that have to juggle their private and public realms because they work and juggle home life and it is only a matter of time that the private will come into the public. Men on the other hand do not have to worry about the private because women are the ones that usually and traditionally take care of it. This is why women have to make trade offs and they are excluded from male dominated jobs because of hours and shift times. Structure also created gendered organizations through policies and practices. In the 1970s there were no women prison guards and one women was discriminated against because of height and weight even though she was over qualified for the job (Ch.1).
Gendered organizations through culture is through symbols, images, and ideologies of what guards should be. An example is of the military where "boys are turned into men." This image does not include women and it is branded into the culture. Some roles like a guard was created with the male traits in mind, even though women and men can do and have the potential to do all the same things, people still think that only men can handle and have the traits to be a guard. (Ch.1).
Gendered through agency is through the interactions of the people that are involved within the prisons. gendered through agency is thought the people whether the are intentional or not by upholding people by their "normal: traits and expectations of how they are suppose to act (Ch.1)
When Britton states that "organizations are gendered at a level of structure" she means that organizations are build on, function, and survive by a division of two labors: the " public and private spheres, between production and reproduction." The reproduction or private labor is the day to day activities and public is work. Women are stuck between these to spheres, have to make decisions, trade offs, and are sometimes spread between both where the spheres collide and they may not look like the right candidate for a job because of this, but they are more hard working than the males. Males traditionally do not deal with this. Males do not deal with the private, focus on the public and get jobs because they are not constricted by the number of hours and shift times. the public and private are more strongly upheld in higher position jobs that have more responsibility and commitments. Women are held back in these positions because of the two spheres colliding. Women are constrained because they do more and are punished by their juggling of two spheres (ch. 1).
Britton Used Gendered Organizations to frame her research by stating this organizations at their root were not neutral. She stated that these organizations were gendered organizations through down to their roots, structures, and ideology so that is why it is so hard to get rid of these ideals and "traditional norms" about women as prison guards. Gendered organizations exist because of the combination of structure, culture, and agency. Gender in this institution is a social construction.
Gender through organizational structure. Prison organizations are built on divisions of labor between a private and public region. Women are the ones that have to juggle their private and public realms because they work and juggle home life and it is only a matter of time that the private will come into the public. Men on the other hand do not have to worry about the private because women are the ones that usually and traditionally take care of it. This is why women have to make trade offs and they are excluded from male dominated jobs because of hours and shift times. Structure also created gendered organizations through policies and practices. In the 1970s there were no women prison guards and one women was discriminated against because of height and weight even though she was over qualified for the job (Ch.1).
Gendered organizations through culture is through symbols, images, and ideologies of what guards should be. An example is of the military where "boys are turned into men." This image does not include women and it is branded into the culture. Some roles like a guard was created with the male traits in mind, even though women and men can do and have the potential to do all the same things, people still think that only men can handle and have the traits to be a guard. (Ch.1).
Gendered through agency is through the interactions of the people that are involved within the prisons. gendered through agency is thought the people whether the are intentional or not by upholding people by their "normal: traits and expectations of how they are suppose to act (Ch.1)
When Britton states that "organizations are gendered at a level of structure" she means that organizations are build on, function, and survive by a division of two labors: the " public and private spheres, between production and reproduction." The reproduction or private labor is the day to day activities and public is work. Women are stuck between these to spheres, have to make decisions, trade offs, and are sometimes spread between both where the spheres collide and they may not look like the right candidate for a job because of this, but they are more hard working than the males. Males traditionally do not deal with this. Males do not deal with the private, focus on the public and get jobs because they are not constricted by the number of hours and shift times. the public and private are more strongly upheld in higher position jobs that have more responsibility and commitments. Women are held back in these positions because of the two spheres colliding. Women are constrained because they do more and are punished by their juggling of two spheres (ch. 1).
UNIT C: Blog 13
BLOG 13
Britton opens up the first chapter of the book by giving us the popularized view of what prison guards should look like. She paints the picture of a man, huge in stature, big, and carrying a night stick in uniform. She states that the "norm" or what most people perceived them as asking like they are mean, brutal, sadistic, and someone that would be able to stand up or deal with this prisoners. The problem with this idea is that people still carry it even though women make up 47 percent of the work force and women do carry positions as prison guards. Even though women have been the transition into this field people still do not see them the same, they do not get jobs at the federal prisons, get paid less, and are not given the same opportunities to work some jobs within the prison (Ch.1).
Women are still trying to make their mark in this over masculine occupation. Prison is seen as a male dominated world made up of male prisoners, male prison guards and violence and masculine behavior, as it is stereotyped. The "norms" of what people stereotype women as being is the opposite of what the skills ans traits are for prison guards which is masculine, aggressive and violent. Women are seen as the opposite as feminine. This ideology brings us to the conclusion of or theory of "genderized organizations" This theory states that one should see organizations not as neutral, but as places where stereotypical traits and norms are present in the structuring of the occupation. Prisons are one example in which this theory was used before and were seen as atypical locations for this behavior. It is so hard to get rid of this standards and norms because they are build into the structuring of the occupation. Another reason is because when people are within the structure of the prison they are in their for long periods of time and their settings, traits, and standards within these walls become them and encompass their personality; they are engulfed into a "total institution." (Ch.1)
Women in prison guard positions are not looked at the same as men in these positions. Women in prison guard positions are out in the lowest position and put in state prisons and not federal. people think that women can not handle the male prisoners and they barred them from contact with the prisoners ( Ch.1).
The media coverage for male prisons and female prisons is not covered the same as well. Just in media alone there were only 91 movies about female prisons and 657 about male prisons. They portray men's prisons as violent and women's are portrayed as sexual. Most people think that this job is too dangerous for women. Prisons have only been around for a short period of about 200 years and ideal and "norms" of these prisons were well established right along with them. the first ideal about women's prisoners were that they had too be much worse than males if they were in prison because they would have had to go beyond their "norms" or moral organization. Women were separate from men in the prison in the Auburn prisons. They were put in "make shift" living areas, cramped, and not allowed out for even work. After a while they were aloud out once and they spent their days sewing, knitting, and doing domesticated chores for the male prisoners (Ch.2)
Women in prisons were seen as a problem or just thing that gets in the way, the were used, they got pregnant and were more than likely used for the male prisoners and guards enjoyment. Women did not have power and were seen as someone that you could not help; they were beyond help in the eyes of the males. One quote from Susan B. Anthony states that men are in prisoned for the "love of the vice" and women for "absolute want for necessaries of life." Male security guards in prisons saw women as nothing, saw them as worse off, hard to deal with and cause more problems than the males (Ch. 2).
An example of how women are perceived different in the occupations is in Women Police Officers. In the video the wife had to prove herself, act in the role that police officers act. She changes at work because of the "role" she has to take and does not want to take her work home with her. She had to fight against the objections and stereotypes. Overall she became an accomplish member of the S.W.A.T. team, but the men in her group were surprised that she was good. She was stressed, but she did just as good in this position as the males if not better than most (Video: Beyond the Blue).
Britton opens up the first chapter of the book by giving us the popularized view of what prison guards should look like. She paints the picture of a man, huge in stature, big, and carrying a night stick in uniform. She states that the "norm" or what most people perceived them as asking like they are mean, brutal, sadistic, and someone that would be able to stand up or deal with this prisoners. The problem with this idea is that people still carry it even though women make up 47 percent of the work force and women do carry positions as prison guards. Even though women have been the transition into this field people still do not see them the same, they do not get jobs at the federal prisons, get paid less, and are not given the same opportunities to work some jobs within the prison (Ch.1).
Women are still trying to make their mark in this over masculine occupation. Prison is seen as a male dominated world made up of male prisoners, male prison guards and violence and masculine behavior, as it is stereotyped. The "norms" of what people stereotype women as being is the opposite of what the skills ans traits are for prison guards which is masculine, aggressive and violent. Women are seen as the opposite as feminine. This ideology brings us to the conclusion of or theory of "genderized organizations" This theory states that one should see organizations not as neutral, but as places where stereotypical traits and norms are present in the structuring of the occupation. Prisons are one example in which this theory was used before and were seen as atypical locations for this behavior. It is so hard to get rid of this standards and norms because they are build into the structuring of the occupation. Another reason is because when people are within the structure of the prison they are in their for long periods of time and their settings, traits, and standards within these walls become them and encompass their personality; they are engulfed into a "total institution." (Ch.1)
Women in prison guard positions are not looked at the same as men in these positions. Women in prison guard positions are out in the lowest position and put in state prisons and not federal. people think that women can not handle the male prisoners and they barred them from contact with the prisoners ( Ch.1).
The media coverage for male prisons and female prisons is not covered the same as well. Just in media alone there were only 91 movies about female prisons and 657 about male prisons. They portray men's prisons as violent and women's are portrayed as sexual. Most people think that this job is too dangerous for women. Prisons have only been around for a short period of about 200 years and ideal and "norms" of these prisons were well established right along with them. the first ideal about women's prisoners were that they had too be much worse than males if they were in prison because they would have had to go beyond their "norms" or moral organization. Women were separate from men in the prison in the Auburn prisons. They were put in "make shift" living areas, cramped, and not allowed out for even work. After a while they were aloud out once and they spent their days sewing, knitting, and doing domesticated chores for the male prisoners (Ch.2)
Women in prisons were seen as a problem or just thing that gets in the way, the were used, they got pregnant and were more than likely used for the male prisoners and guards enjoyment. Women did not have power and were seen as someone that you could not help; they were beyond help in the eyes of the males. One quote from Susan B. Anthony states that men are in prisoned for the "love of the vice" and women for "absolute want for necessaries of life." Male security guards in prisons saw women as nothing, saw them as worse off, hard to deal with and cause more problems than the males (Ch. 2).
An example of how women are perceived different in the occupations is in Women Police Officers. In the video the wife had to prove herself, act in the role that police officers act. She changes at work because of the "role" she has to take and does not want to take her work home with her. She had to fight against the objections and stereotypes. Overall she became an accomplish member of the S.W.A.T. team, but the men in her group were surprised that she was good. She was stressed, but she did just as good in this position as the males if not better than most (Video: Beyond the Blue).
UNIT C: Blog 12
Occupational Segregation
One problem that we have been dealing with with occuaptional segregation is that fact that there still is a pay wage gap. Women are now taking more non traditional jobs, doing the same work, but are still getting pay less. For example, woman that are working as prison gaurds are more likely to be working in state prsions and not federal prisions which pay more (power point). Women now make up 47 percent of the working force. Out of those women the ones that are working full time and all year make only 73 percent of what the males are making doing the same exact thing as them ( ch.1 Britton). We need to acknowledge this and solve the problem as to why this is still going on. We need to figure out why; even though we have laws against this, does this still exist?
One reason that could explain wht these segregations still exist is the fact the organizations and structures such as firms, plants, prisons and companies are genderized. This means that structures ans organizations on the bottom level of their structuring are structured into shperes or groupings. they are also organized into public and private and domestic and work. This is where where see these internal and domanent ideals come into play ebcause they think woman can only do the domestic work (CH.1 Britton)
Women are the ones that are going out into the work force and work two jobs ( mother and bread winner) but yet thye are the ones that are looked down on and have to make more sacrifies. Women are seen as domestic, they have to make choices in between their home and family life. Some employers give maternity live and child care but that is not common (Ch. 1 Britton).
Organization and structures in occuaptional setting uphold these horrible standards through their practices and policies. Womena re segregation in gedner based policies and practices in occupations. On example are height and weight requirements. In one job in anexample from the book, states that all emplyees, men and women, are put into a wprok pool. They will then get the lowerst ranking of job which is the hardest and women would not get it becaus the requirements were for strong people that could do the work. Other work equirments and policies would amke it so you had to work difficult and long hours. This was a problem for women as they had to take care of the children and the businesses new that ( Ch. 1 Britton).
Women that could get into the non traditional jobs saw less pay and harassment more offend than women in more traditional jobs. These women would have to change their gender roles and comform to what theiur male traditonal jobs asked of them. These women had to become their jobs. Some aspects that made segregation sill exist through occuations were shift hours, the length of the shifts, and placing women in jobs such as working in the kitchen (PowerPoint).
The pros of working in non traditional jobs are following your dreams, empowerment, satisfaction and getting attention, but this can be a con as well if it is not the right kind of attention. If you are doing good in your job the pro is that we like to get attention for our good work done well. the con is that if we are struggling it can be negative attention. Cons for non traditional jobs would be limited mentors and support from your family might not be as strong (article: The pros and cons of nontraditional careers). Depending on what career and occupation that women are going they can be faced with men that are acceptive and ones that are against. Ones that against are ones that can not see past the traditional roles and think they will lose their jobs.
these segregations exist because of the structures of the organizations, the culture, the ideology, and the workers. (Ch.1)
One problem that we have been dealing with with occuaptional segregation is that fact that there still is a pay wage gap. Women are now taking more non traditional jobs, doing the same work, but are still getting pay less. For example, woman that are working as prison gaurds are more likely to be working in state prsions and not federal prisions which pay more (power point). Women now make up 47 percent of the working force. Out of those women the ones that are working full time and all year make only 73 percent of what the males are making doing the same exact thing as them ( ch.1 Britton). We need to acknowledge this and solve the problem as to why this is still going on. We need to figure out why; even though we have laws against this, does this still exist?
One reason that could explain wht these segregations still exist is the fact the organizations and structures such as firms, plants, prisons and companies are genderized. This means that structures ans organizations on the bottom level of their structuring are structured into shperes or groupings. they are also organized into public and private and domestic and work. This is where where see these internal and domanent ideals come into play ebcause they think woman can only do the domestic work (CH.1 Britton)
Women are the ones that are going out into the work force and work two jobs ( mother and bread winner) but yet thye are the ones that are looked down on and have to make more sacrifies. Women are seen as domestic, they have to make choices in between their home and family life. Some employers give maternity live and child care but that is not common (Ch. 1 Britton).
Organization and structures in occuaptional setting uphold these horrible standards through their practices and policies. Womena re segregation in gedner based policies and practices in occupations. On example are height and weight requirements. In one job in anexample from the book, states that all emplyees, men and women, are put into a wprok pool. They will then get the lowerst ranking of job which is the hardest and women would not get it becaus the requirements were for strong people that could do the work. Other work equirments and policies would amke it so you had to work difficult and long hours. This was a problem for women as they had to take care of the children and the businesses new that ( Ch. 1 Britton).
Women that could get into the non traditional jobs saw less pay and harassment more offend than women in more traditional jobs. These women would have to change their gender roles and comform to what theiur male traditonal jobs asked of them. These women had to become their jobs. Some aspects that made segregation sill exist through occuations were shift hours, the length of the shifts, and placing women in jobs such as working in the kitchen (PowerPoint).
The pros of working in non traditional jobs are following your dreams, empowerment, satisfaction and getting attention, but this can be a con as well if it is not the right kind of attention. If you are doing good in your job the pro is that we like to get attention for our good work done well. the con is that if we are struggling it can be negative attention. Cons for non traditional jobs would be limited mentors and support from your family might not be as strong (article: The pros and cons of nontraditional careers). Depending on what career and occupation that women are going they can be faced with men that are acceptive and ones that are against. Ones that against are ones that can not see past the traditional roles and think they will lose their jobs.
these segregations exist because of the structures of the organizations, the culture, the ideology, and the workers. (Ch.1)
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