The social ecology of sexual victimization against transgender women who are incarcerated: a call for (more) research on modalities of housing and prison violence

President Biden has called for reform of the criminal justice system to ensure fair treatment of people who are transgender who come into contact with the criminal justice system. He has done so in a context in which criminologists, public health researchers, and others, including journalists and ad...

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1. VerfasserIn: Jenness, Valerie (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Criminology & public policy
Jahr: 2021, Band: 20, Heft: 1, Seiten: 3-18
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Schlagwörter:
Gender
Imprisonment
Incarceration
LGBTQ
Prisoners
Prison experiences
Prisons
Sexual Assault
Transgender women
Victimization
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Zusammenfassung:President Biden has called for reform of the criminal justice system to ensure fair treatment of people who are transgender who come into contact with the criminal justice system. He has done so in a context in which criminologists, public health researchers, and others, including journalists and advocates, have produced a growing body of research that documents the over criminalization and differential incarceration of people who are transgender as well as the high rates of victimization of transgender women who are incarcerated. Accordingly, this article describes a growing literature on the sexual victimization experienced by transgender women who are incarcerated; focuses analytic attention on the housing contexts in which this kind of discriminatory gendered violence emerges and takes shape; points to some emergent policy responses related to these concerns; and calls for original research that, if conducted, could advance the criminological literature in meaningful ways and set the stage for evidence-based prison policy and practice related to what is now predictably high rates of violence against transgender women who are incarcerated.
ISSN:1745-9133
DOI:10.1111/1745-9133.12540