Digital divide and marginalized women during COVID-19: a study of women recently released from prison

Blomberg, Matt; Altschwager, Darcey; Seo, Hyunjin; Booton, Ellie; Nwachukwu, Maxine

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2021.1963462

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“…Figure 2 shows that most studies were published in 2020 (n = 7, 20%) [ 23 – 29 ] and 2021 (n = 6, 17%) [ 30 – 35 ]. Moreover, most of the studies were conducted in the United States (n = 11, 31%) [ 26 , 34 – 43 ] (Fig. 3 ).…”

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Barriers and facilitators of using health information technologies by women: a scoping review

Moulaei,

Bahaadinbeigy

2023

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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Background and aim Health information technologies play a vital role in addressing diverse health needs among women, offering a wide array of services tailored to their specific requirements. Despite the potential benefits, the widespread utilization of these technologies by women faces numerous barriers and challenges. These barriers can cause women to either reduce their usage of health technologies or refrain from using them altogether. Therefore, this review was done with the aim of identifying and classifying barriers and facilitators. Methods Some databases, including PubMed, Web of Sciences, and Scopus were searched using related keywords. Then, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the articles were evaluated and selected. Finally, the barriers and facilitators were identified and classified. Results Out of 14,399 articles, finally 35 articles were included in the review. In general, 375 barriers (232 items) and facilitators (143 items) were extracted from the studies. After merging similar items, 121 barriers (51 items) and facilitators (70 items) identified were organized into five main themes (management, technological, legal and regulatory, personal, and data and information management). The most important barriers were “privacy, confidentiality, and security concerns” (n = 24), “deficiencies and limitations of infrastructure, software, hardware, and network” (n = 19), “sociocultural challenges” (n = 15), and “poor economic status” (n = 15). Moreover, the most important facilitators were “increasing awareness, skills and continuous education of women” (n = 17, in personal theme), “providing training services” (n = 14, in management theme), “simple, usable, and user-friendly design of technologies” (n = 14, in technological theme), and “providing financial or non-financial incentives (motivation) for women” (n = 14, in personal theme). Conclusion This review showed that in order to use technologies, women face many barriers, either specific to women (such as gender inequality) or general (such as lack of technical skills). To overcome these barriers, policymakers, managers of organizations and medical centers, and designers of health systems can consider the facilitators identified in this review.

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“…Moreover, in some studies, in order to identify barriers and facilitators, women’s views on all health technologies were obtained. [ 27 , 32 , 34 , 51 , 54 , 55 ].…”

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Barriers and facilitators of using health information technologies by women: a scoping review

Moulaei,

Bahaadinbeigy

2023

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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“…They disproportionately include those who are rendered vulnerable and disadvantaged in various ways, whether by education, by employment, by birth or by bad luck’ (2018: 940, emphasis added). Women in the justice system may inhabit one of the most precarious positions in terms of the digital divide, when gender, race and socio-economic status are taken into account (Blomberg et al, 2021).…”

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“…Although the argument put forward in this article is theoretical in part, it is also based on sensible assumptions about some of the likely consequences of the court digitisation agenda. Existing research in the field demonstrates that marginalised women offenders are structurally disadvantaged and consequently more likely to be victims of the digital divide (Blomberg et al, 2021; Goedhart et al, 2019; Gurusami, 2018; Seo et al, 2020). They are, at the same time, and by virtue of their status as ‘lesser offenders’ at risk of being more likely to be caught up with the new online systems that are designed to deal with lesser offences.…”

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Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice

Birkett

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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The UK government's Transforming Our Justice System agenda represents an emerging system of penal governance. Its cumulative impact, manifested through the mainstreaming of virtual hearings, a system of automatic online convictions and the Single Justice Procedure is a story yet to tell, with the potential impact on marginalised women simply a footnote. Such women, well-documented victims of the legal aid cuts as well as the digital divide, must comply with and negotiate the requirements of the carceral web alone. Pursuance of the reforms, representing the next instalment in the neo-liberal justice agenda, exposes another example of life at the penal–welfare nexus. This precarious territory has burgeoned since government-imposed austerity, with implications for self-criminalisation, net-widening and social justice. Reforms couched in the language of ‘efficiency’ and ‘common sense’ are likely to run in direct opposition to what marginalised women might need (or respond well to) and may jeopardise official reductionist strategies.

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“…Research has indicated that the frequent absence of computers and internet access within prisons constitutes a particular manifestation of wider digital divides (Reisdorf & Jewkes, 2016). This is a continuation of the prevention of communication that has been part of prison life since Victorian times (Jewkes & Johnston, 2009), such prevention took on a heightened significance during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown (Blomberg et al, 2021).…”

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What do times of crisis reveal about the “total” nature of prisons? Analysing the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis within the Scottish prison system

Maycock

2023

Journal of Criminology

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Times of crisis within prison settings either at a system-wide level during times of riots or during pandemics or at more personal levels during time in segregation can be particularly challenging times when the prison can feel more ‘total’ than other times. Goffman's influential work outlines a particular interpretation of the parameters of the total institution, of which prisons were one manifestation. In the years following its publication, a wide range of research has sought to subvert the notion that prisons are total institutions, suggesting a greater permeability of contemporary prison walls. This article calls for a re-consideration of this dismissal, and a reconnection and critical engagement with Goffman's original parameters within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown. The lockdown in response to COVID-19 in prison settings has resulted in many prison jurisdictions rolling back many of the erosion of the prison looking and feeling like a total institution. Through the analysis of 19 letters received from 8 people in custody in one Scottish prison, there emerges a reframed and reconsidered permeability of prison walls. For the participants in this study, the experiences of the COVID-19 lockdown complicate much of the recent critique of the relevance of the total institution as a theoretical frame to analyse contemporary prisons. This article argues that by considering the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible to observe a more essential quality of contemporary imprisonment, obscured through decades of penal reform but one that emerges during times of crisis.

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Digital divide and marginalized women during COVID-19: a study of women recently released from prison

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Barriers and facilitators of using health information technologies by women: a scoping review

Barriers and facilitators of using health information technologies by women: a scoping review

Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice

What do times of crisis reveal about the “total” nature of prisons? Analysing the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis within the Scottish prison system

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