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Originally Posted by punky
Yeah that is just as bad. I think anything should be done holistically rather than just targeting specific groups. I appreciate what you are saying. Maybe because that report is australian, that things are different down there. It isn't always all about women, as it is sometimes down to race instead of sex. The program just aggravated me a bit. The same thing happened again a few days ago in that US prison thread. I think it is because women have all these rights and monitoring groups behind them, coupled with a revered place in society. Maybe I am making a big deal out of it, but right or wrong it aggravated me. I hate men, or anyone being marginalised just as the women were back in the 50s too.
Edit: My typing sucks lately.
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Don't get me wrong Punky
I couldn't agree with you more........ i was only making a suggestion as to why more specific studies are done in general. The document i used was Australian but i posted it not because it's about female prisoners but because it refers to
other studies which are about men. Since all
credible research has to be
evidence-based if you check the references at the end of the document, it refers back to specific research done in the UK which includes either all prisoners or male specific examples
If you look at
http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/cebmh/el...ics/index.html it does provide statistics on self-inflicted injuries leading to death for sex and race. Researchers are out there studying those issues that we
both think are important and i could post examples (copyright allowing of course
) but i don't want to bore anyone more than i already have
I'm afraid the Mass Media focuses on issues that fit their agenda, whether it's to do with sensationalism, to create a superficially
new groundbreaking piece of news or to fit in with what they think is currently already news
While television is the main source of educational information for the majority...... i'm afraid that some of these programmes may create the false impression that some of these issues are new
I've seen this many times before and remember thinking
"Eh?" but if a television programme hasn't been made about it before then it doesn't
exist
Punky
I'm not arguing with you...... as i said i agree with you totally, i just think that it's television and the mass media that is the
problem not the
issue that is portrayed