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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for correctional institutions, sexual misconduct
2 results foundAuthor: Smith, Brenda V. Title: Breaking the Code of Silence: Correction Officers' Handbook on Identitying and Addressing Sexual Misconduct Summary: This handbook addresses the issue of preventing and addressing staff sexual misconduct with offenders. The handbook aims to educate correctional professionals at all levels on: 1) why correctional staff and administrators need to be concerned about staff sexual misconduct with offenders; 2) how agency culture and the workplace environment influence staff sexual misconduct; 3) the tools that will help identify and address staff sexual misconduct; 4) the consequences of staff sexual misconduct with offenders; 5) the investigative process that should follow an allegation of staff sexual misconduct; and 6) how correctional staff members can keep the workplace safe. Details: Washington, DC: NIC/WCL Project on Addressing Prison Rape, American University, 2007. 119p. Source: Internet Resource; Accessed August 17, 2010 at: http://www.wcl.american.edu/nic/for_correctional_employees/breaking_the_code_of_silence_correctional_officers_handbook.pdf?rd=1 Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: http://www.wcl.american.edu/nic/for_correctional_employees/breaking_the_code_of_silence_correctional_officers_handbook.pdf?rd=1 Shelf Number: 114813 Keywords: Correctional Institutions, Sexual MisconductCorrections Officers, Sexual MisconductCorrections Officers, TrainingPrison RapeStaff-Inmate Relations |
Author: Buchanan, Kim S. Title: Engendering Rape Summary: This Article highlights a systematic bias in the academic, correctional, and human rights discourse that constitutes the basis for prison rape policy reform. This discourse focuses almost exclusively on sexual abuse perpetrated by men: sexual abuse of male prisoners by fellow inmates, and sexual abuse of women prisoners by male staff. But since 2007, survey and correctional data have indicated that the main perpetrators of prison sexual abuse seem to be women. In men’s facilities, inmates report much more sexual victimization by female staff than by male inmates; in women’s facilities, inmates report much higher rates of sexual abuse by fellow inmates than by male or female staff. These findings contravene conventional gender expectations, and are barely acknowledged in contemporary prison rape discourse, leading to policy decisions that are too sanguine about the likelihood of female-perpetrated sexual victimization. The selective blindness of prison rape discourse to counter-stereotypical forms of abuse illuminates a pattern of reasoning I describe as “stereotype reconciliation,” an unintentional interpretive trend by which surprising, counter-stereotypical facts are reconciled with conventional gender expectations. The authors of prison rape discourse tend to ignore these counter-stereotypical facts or to invoke alternative stereotypes, such as heterosexist notions of romance or racialized rape tropes, in ways that tend to rationalize their neglect of counter-stereotypical forms of abuse and reconcile those abuses with conventional expectations of masculine domination and feminine submission. Details: Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2012. 60p. Source: Legal Studies Working Paper Series Paper 93: Internet Resource: Accessed October 15, 2012 at http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1228&context=usclwps-lss&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dengendering%2520rape%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CCkQFjAB%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flaw.bepress.com%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1228%2526context%253Dusclwps-lss%26ei%3DWaB8UM37EsKB0AH9tYDQDQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNGUFk7KqCHUNKrSI7jElZK993YZrw#search=%22engendering%20rape%22 Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1228&context=usclwps-lss&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dengendering%2520rape%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CCkQFjAB%26url%3 Shelf Number: 126744 Keywords: Abuse of InmatesCorrectional Institutions, Sexual MisconductCorrections Officers, Sexual MisconductFemale VictimsMale VictimsPrison RapeRapeStaff-Inmate Relations |