Citation

Jones TR, Pratt TC. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2007; 52(3): 280-295.

Affiliation

Washington State University, Pullman.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X07307631

PMID

17893207

Abstract

The issue of prison violence and misconduct has been the subject of considerable academic attention, yet particularized areas of violent victimization within prisons have gone relatively unnoticed. One such area involves sexual violence in prisons. Scholars have argued that sexual violence contributes to a host of institutional and individual-level problems, yet the primary limitation of this body of literature is that it has been largely confined to methodologically questionable studies of prison rape prevalence. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to critically take stock of what is and what is not currently known about the prevalence of prison sexual violence. In doing so, it highlights the direction that future research should take so that evidence-based policies concerning prison sexual violence may be developed.

Language: en