RT Article
T1 Sex logics: Negotiating the prison rape elimination act (PREA) against its’ administrative, safety, and cultural burdens
JF Punishment & society
VO 23
IS 2
SP 241
OP 259
A1 Rudes, Danielle S. 1970-
A2 Magnuson, Shannon
A2 Portillo, Shannon
A2 Hattery, Angela
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760353965
AB 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.
K1 Qualitative
K1 Prison Rape Elimination Act
K1 Organizational Change
K1 Institutional logic
K1 carceral/penal
K1 Administrative burden
DO 10.1177/1462474520952155