{"id":800,"date":"2009-01-13T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=800"},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:48:59","slug":"a-few-bad-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/01\/13\/a-few-bad-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"a few bad apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2009\/01\/apples2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-801\" title=\"apples2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2009\/01\/apples2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>working as i did with one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~hsbecker\/\">key figures in labeling theory<\/a>, i should know better.\u00a0 but, in my earlier post on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/12\/24\/girl-trouble\/\">girl trouble<\/a>&#8221; about\u00a0starting classes in a correctional facility with teenage girls, i let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratherald.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/22\/news\/local\/7aaa02_escape.txt\">the bad press<\/a> infiltrate my thoughts, and i became particularly\u00a0nervous about starting this new endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>happily, our first night of class went well.\u00a0 9 female OSU students and 7 girls from the correctional facility will be studying &#8220;gender and crime&#8221; with me this quarter.\u00a0 after some introductions, we spent time last night talking about topics they would like to cover and ideas for potential group projects we can work on together.\u00a0 one element that came through loudly to me is that the 7 incarcerated girls individually and collectively have a lot to say, and they would like to find a way to\u00a0have their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p>i was humbled when they spoke eloquently\u00a0of their frustration\u00a0at being stereotyped as troublemakers and\u00a0really <em>victimized <\/em>by the girls in the facility who tried to escape last month.\u00a0 they are aware it makes the institution, the girls, and the staff look bad, and they were angry the other\u00a0girls injured\u00a0employees of the facility\u00a0who are there to help them.\u00a0 it was a mature conversation and reminded me anew about the power and impact of negative labels.\u00a0 by bringing\u00a0our &#8220;magnificent seven&#8221;\u00a0into this college experience,\u00a0i&#8217;m hoping\u00a0we can offer these individuals new, positive labels\u00a0to counter the negative stereotypes and bolster\u00a0self-images in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>working as i did with one of the key figures in labeling theory, i should know better.\u00a0 but, in my earlier post on &#8220;girl trouble&#8221; about\u00a0starting classes in a correctional facility with teenage girls, i let the bad press infiltrate my thoughts, and i became particularly\u00a0nervous about starting this new endeavor. happily, our first night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}