Describe the way female inmates socialize with each other in prison and compare this to the male power structure in men's institutions

What will be an ideal response?


• Women tend to find fictive kinship structures in prison. Women prisoners construct the kinship structure because they are socialized to conceive of themselves, their needs, and their peer relations primarily in terms of family roles and situations.
• Women develop cliques or families in prison.
• Women develop sexual relationships in prison and take on traditional familial roles.
• Women prisoners usually agree that men tend to show more solidarity than women.

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