d, white, Texas mother systematically drowned her 5 children.Her defense layers claim she had an illness called postpartum depression, which is a depressionthat sets in after the birth of a child. They hope to claim she was insane at the time of the murders.Nikolay Soltys is wanted for the murdering of seven people: his three-year-old son, his pregnantwife, two cousins (aged 9 and 10), and his aunt and uncle. He is an immigrant male. His conditiondoes not have a definition. Both of these people are accused of murdering their family members.But the likely hood that Andrea Yates will receive an easier sentence is much higher then NikolaySoltys, because of her race, gender, and class, but especially because she has been labeled sick.Individuals who acquire sick rather then bad labels are entitled to treatment rather thenpunishment and are allowed to absolve themselves from blame for their behavior (Conrad &Schneider 1980). People in positions of power are more apt to be successful in claiming the sicklabel. For example, the upper class woman who shoplifts is likely to be labeled neurotic, whereasthe lower class woman who steals the same items is likely to be labeled a shoplifter. The middleclass boy who acts up in school may be defined as hyperactive, the lower class boy as atroublemaker. ...
