Which perspective views prison as part of a system that masks the effects of poverty and inequality as personal, individual failings?

Feminism primarily focuses on gender inequalities and the ways in which social structures perpetuate the oppression of women. While it may address issues of crime and victimization, it does not specifically analyze the prison system as a means of masking poverty and inequality in the same way the conflict perspective does.

Functionalism views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability and order. It tends to see prisons as necessary for maintaining social order and deterring crime, rather than as instruments that obscure the effects of inequality and poverty.

Symbolic interactionism focuses on the meanings and interpretations individuals assign to social phenomena. It examines micro-level interactions rather than the macro-level systemic issues of poverty and inequality, thus missing the broader critique of the prison system that the conflict perspective provides.