Why are indigenous women experiencing increasing rates of criminalization and incarceration?
Should be 5 pages double spaced focusing of one of these 6 questions. 1) Indigenous women are the fastest growing demographic of incarcerated peoples in Canada. Choose one of the following in order to frame your paper: a) Why are indigenous women experiencing increasing rates of criminalization and incarceration? b) Why has the overrepresentation of indigenous women experiencing incarceration led critics to argue that the prison is the ‘new residential school’? 2) Choose a subculture and develop a paper around one of the following questions: a) How does the subculture challenge conventional cultural mores, norms, behaviors, etc? b) Why did the subculture emerge? What problems or identities was its emergence a response to? 3) Explore one of the following topics in relation to theories of deviance. In considering the topic, some questions you might ask are: have perceptions around this topic shifted? If so why? Does classifying this topic/act as deviant protect certain demographics? Does it harm some? Whose interests are served in categorizing the act as deviant? a) Sex work laws b) Criminalization of drug use 4) Many different populations face higher risks of food insecurity. Explore the reasons that one of the following groups experience higher rates of food insecurity: a) Women b) Peoples with a disability c) Indigenous communities Racialized communities 5) Discuss the implications of one of the following ‘vectors’ of inequality on educational attainment: a) Gender b) Race c) Class d) Disability 6) The social determinants of health model allows us to make sense of health outcomes in a social, rather than individual or biological sense. What does the social determinants of health model add to our understanding of health for: a) The queer community b) Newcomers c) Indigenous communities d) Men/women/trans/intersex/non-binary peoples e)Racialized communities The paper should be 1375 words long
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