Domestic Violence And Radical Feminism

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Domestic Violence/ Radical Feminism Radical feminism is the focus on female victims, who have been victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault (Barak, 209). The reason why is because this society is dominated by males, and females are always put on the back burner. Male domination is all over society from legal and political structures and it is also happening in the educational system, churches, almost everywhere you turn (Barak, 209). It is seen that women are only good for having children and being house wives, they should have a place a political structure. Lecture 33:25 How has prison produced/ producing the very social problem it claims to solve? The problem that is being produced is that communities are not safer nor healthier. They are failing to keep their promises that they would make safe and healthy communities. The government has implement mass incarceration to try to make communities safer, but they are only arrested people of color and sometimes haven’t committed a crime (Davis, 11). Within three decades, there has ten times more people being locked up than in 1960’s which had about two hundred thousand people (Davis, 11). Prisons will always be around because it is a form of control. It is a control on low-income communities and people of color. …show more content…

The criminal justice system tends to target people of color and poor communities because they are at the bottom and no every really fights back. People want to think the prison will help with the economy and make jobs for people, but that is not the case (15). Instead tax payers, is paying for the people in prison and the building of new traps. It is drain the economy and not making society a safer place, while the government and business are making money out of the cheap labor from prisoners. (Lecture

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