RT Journal Article
T1 Gender discrimination in prison: the perception of women inmates and prison professionals
A1 Quiroga Carrillo, Anaïs
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
A1 Lorenzo Moledo, María del Mar
K1 Female delinquency
K1 Prisons
K1 Incarcerated women
K1 Gender discrimination
K1 Socio-educational intervention
AB The prejudices that have traditionally been held against female delinquency and thenumerical minority of women in the prison system have led to the invisibility of their needs andcharacteristics as well as to many situations of inequality while they are incarcerated. This studyis aimed at exploring the gender discrimination perceived by women in Spanish prisons. To thisend, a scale for perception of gender discrimination is applied to a sample of incarcerated women.Qualitative data from a questionnaire administered to prison professionals and field notes are alsoused. The results show that incarcerated women perceive the existence of several situations ofdiscrimination related to socio-educational intervention and to the adaptation of prisons to theirunique needs, especially for those housed in male prisons. Prison professionals hold similar viewsand express their concern about the feminization of activities. The study has implications for theprison system and policy makers, including the implementation of gender-responsive programmingin women’s prisons, the development of periodic assessments of the experiences faced by incarceratedwomen, and the training of prison staff
PB MDPI
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34512
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34512
LA eng
NO Quiroga-Carrillo, A.; Ferraces Otero, M.J.; Lorenzo Moledo, M. Gender discrimination in prison: the perception of women inmates and prison professionals. Societies 2024, 14, 5
NO This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport(‘Aid for University Teacher Training’ [‘Ayuda para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario’];FPU17/00373)
DS Minerva
RD 1 may 2026