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Female Incarceration Rates

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Today’s incarceration population shows that a lot of inmates are minority or female. The female incarceration rate has slowly increased over the years. According to Schmalleger and Smykia (2015), some characteristics that are found in these inmates are: young, poor, low education, abuse, mental disorder (p. 222). Being young definitely has effects on a person especially when it comes to mentality. Younger people tend to make some bad decisions growing up, but that’s how we learn sometimes is from our mistakes. Being poor is rough especially if you have a family. When you are poor you will hit times where you will think about or do anything you can to provide for yourself and family. According to Alfred and Chlup (2009), drug use and selling

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