Women Providing and Men Free Riding: Work, Visits and Gender Roles in Mexican Prisons

Agoff, Carolina; Sandberg, Sveinung; Fondevila, Gustavo

doi:10.1080/15564886.2020.1828210

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“…Note how Semiri had to pay for her own necessities and was expected to provide for her family outside of prison (Agoff, Sandberg, and Fondevila 2020). This challenge is unique among the three studies but appears to be common among incarcerated people in Latin American-a challenge to incarcerated women that has largely been ignored by the English-language literature on incarcerated women.…”

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prisons had an informal economy. By choice or because it was the only work available, women took part in informal arrangements such as setting up food stands or doing chores for wealthier prisoners (Agoff, Sandberg, and Fondevila 2020). Ximena, for example, after having worked in the formal industries, concluded that "I will not kill myself for just 80 pesos a day."…”

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This constant drift of money, materials, and commodities was crucial to Mexican prisoners and, by extension, to some of their families (Agoff, Sandberg, and Fondevila 2020). The more food, hygiene products, and the like they received from outside, the less they had to work inside.…”

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The more food, hygiene products, and the like they received from outside, the less they had to work inside. Some women were able to give money from their prison-based labor to their families, which was a considerable source of pride (Agoff, Sandberg, and Fondevila 2020).…”

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women in Prisons

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2022

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Before being locked up, incarcerated women are more marginalized, have higher rates of mental illness and substance misuse, and have more often experienced physical or sexual victimization than incarcerated men. Women experience prison differently. However, much of what we know about women's experiences comes from research in the U.S. and the U.K., providing little insight into women prisoners' experiences elsewhere. This is unfortunate for many reasons; policy makers wishing to develop evidence-based initiatives, for example, cannot know whether what seems to work in one place is appropriate in another. Case studies from Canada, Norway, and Mexico reveal similarities and substantial differences in women's experiences. Incarcerated women in all three places have histories of victimization and identify their children as their primary motivator to desist from crime and drug use. However, how they relate to programming, prison work, accommodation, and prison food varies greatly. How women in these three different countries experience imprisonment is related to conditions of their lives outside of prison and to the nature, extent, and quality of available social welfare services. Researchers need to pay much closer attention to geographical and contextual differences when assessing the conditions, challenges, and prospects of women in prisons. * * *Scholars have mostly studied men's prisons and male prisoners (e.g., Sykes 1958;Irwin and Cressey 1962;Jacobs 1977). This is not surprising. Men's prisons far outnumber those for women, and men make up 90-95 percent of prisoners in most countries. Rises in female incarceration rates and increases in female fractions among prison populations in many countries in recent years have fueled interest in understanding more about women's incarceration, the challenges women prisoners face, and the effects of incarceration on them and their families and loved ones (e.g.,

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Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Three Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Despite this, there is a growing body of criminological research that studies the effects of the pandemic and the various restrictions imposed in the region on, for example, changes in crime pattens in Mexico City during the pandemic, such as crimes associated with public transport [8], burglary, vehicle theft [9], violence against women [37] and homicides [7]. There are also studies on problems related to prisons and the difficulties faced by various Latin American governments to resolve these [38,39]. It is possible that the issue of shootings has not yet been systematically dealt with due to the lack of empirical data or the challenge of accessing such data in the region.…”

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Spatial Analysis of Gunshot Reports on Twitter in Mexico City

García-Tejeda¹,

Fondevila²,

Siordia³

2021

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The quarantine and stay-at-home measures implemented by most governments significantly impacted the volume and distribution of crime, and already, a body of literature exists that focuses on the effects of lockdown on crime. However, the effects of lockdown on firearm violence have yet to be studied. Within this context, this study analyzes reports of gunshots in Mexico City registered on Twitter from October 2018 to 2019 (pre-COVID-19) and from October 2019 to 2020 (during COVID-19), using a combination of spatial (nearest neighbor ratio, Ripley’s K function and kernel estimation) and non-spatial (Fisher’s exact test) methods. The results indicate a spatial concentration of gunshot reports in Mexico City and a reduction in frequency of reports during the pandemic. While they show no change in the overall concentration of gunshots during lockdown, they do indicate an expansion in the patterns of spatial intensity (moving from the west to the center of the city). One possible explanation is the capacity of possible victims of firearm crimes in certain municipalities to comply with lockdown measures and thus avoid exposure to such crimes.

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The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America

Fondevila

Sandberg

2023

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Women Providing and Men Free Riding: Work, Visits and Gender Roles in Mexican Prisons

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Women in Prisons

Women in Prisons

Spatial Analysis of Gunshot Reports on Twitter in Mexico City

The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America

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