A Veneer of Idyllic but [Un]safe Dirt Roads: Young Women’s Pathways to Safety and Belonging behind Prison Walls
Many victimized young women enter the justice system as a product of their abuses – oftentimes, a result of cultural norms allowing structural violence. Coercive sexual environments create communities that support, and even encourage, sexual abuse of young women. To understand rural CSE pathways in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Victims & offenders
Year: 2023, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-22 |
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| Summary: | Many victimized young women enter the justice system as a product of their abuses – oftentimes, a result of cultural norms allowing structural violence. Coercive sexual environments create communities that support, and even encourage, sexual abuse of young women. To understand rural CSE pathways in the abuse-to-prison pipeline, interviews with incarcerated young women (n = 16), as well as community stakeholders (n = 50) within a rural state, were conducted. Findings unveiled many young women feel safer in prison than their abusive rural communities while stakeholders appear ill-equipped to provide services. Practical implications to build resiliency within communities while preventing system-involvement are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1556-4991 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15564886.2022.2114118 |
