Sex logics: Negotiating the prison rape elimination act (PREA) against its’ administrative, safety, and cultural burdens

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) reforms correctional institutions via administrative mechanisms and represents a major shift in both correctional policy and workplace practice. Using qualitative data within six prisons in one U.S. state, finding suggest that staff view PREA as an administrati...

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Main Author: Rudes, Danielle S. (Author)
Contributors: Magnuson, Shannon ; Portillo, Shannon ; Hattery, Angela
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-259
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Administrative burden
Institutional logic
Organizational Change
Prison Rape Elimination Act
Qualitative
carceral/penal
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Summary:The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) reforms correctional institutions via administrative mechanisms and represents a major shift in both correctional policy and workplace practice. Using qualitative data within six prisons in one U.S. state, finding suggest that staff view PREA as an administrative, safety, and cultural burden, which creates a misalignment of institutional logics. Rather than seeing themselves as central to eliminating prison sexual misconduct/violence, staff see PREA as interfering with their “real” custody/control work. This misalignment has major implications for the productive implementation and use of PREA and the broader shift to administrative rather than legal processes for institutional reform.
ISSN:1741-3095
DOI:10.1177/1462474520952155