Vengeful Equity

This paper will address the issues surrounding the criminal incarceration of women in American society through the discussion of the views of Meda Chesney-Lind in her 1997 paper "Vengeful Equity: Sentencing Women to Prison." It will present critical reasons of incarceration dealing with the onset of the "Rockefeller Laws," problems with translation, and results. In the paper I will also present solutions of Chesney-Lind as well as my own opinion for possible options other then common …

…them. But I guess, what can you expect from a world still caught up with racial tension and sexual discrimination at the top of everyone's thought process. If we were to actually punish those who score high on these surveys, you'd have to throw away the key twice on black men. I don't buy it, it is bullshit, and that is my personal view on Chesney-Lind and her paper, "Vengeful Equity: Sentencing Women to Prison."