RT Article
T1 Male inmate-on-inmate sexual assault: characteristics associated with risk
JF Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
VO 17
IS 3
SP 57
OP 73
A1 Sutton, Jessica
A2 Sutton, James
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580359892
AB Sexual assault in prisons has received sporadic attention from researchers overthe years, though The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 has drawn more attention to this problem in the past decade. This study contributes to the growing and more recent literature on characteristics associated with risk for sexual assault in prison. By using unique data and a novel analytic strategy, we examined perpetrator and victim characteristics associated with male inmate-on-inmate sexual assault. Whereas most studies of prison sexual assault have relied on victim data, we examined both perpetrator and victim data for all founded inmate-on-inmate sexual assaults that occurred in the Ohio prison system during a four year period. We compared perpetrators to victims, and both perpetrators and victims to a comparison group that was representative of the general prisoner population. This approach has not previously been used to our knowledge, and we found a number of clear patterns distinguishing perpetrators and victims from each other and from the comparison group.
K1 Prison rape,
K1 Sexual assault,
K1 Prison violence
K1 PREA