Sexual assualt in prison
Criminology
Dec. 3 2013
Sexual Assault in Prison Around the world people are in poisoned for various crimes including assault and rape. But people do not imagine going to prison and getting sexually assaulted like many people do every year. In 2001 a landmark report to the BJS, “ No escape: Male rape in the US prisons,” Human rights watched documented vicious and brutally violent male rapes in prison as well as other vulnerable people who were targeted. The prisoners who were mainly targeted in the video were young, physically small, weak, gay, first offenders, or have been convicted of a crime against a minor in the sexual nature. In the report research was done to see why sexual assault was happening it came out that sexual assault often occurred because the staff failed to supervise the inmates or respond to the complaints of unwanted sexual activity. In 2007 a report was given to the Bureau of Justice statistics which stated that 4.5 percent of the state and federal prisoners surveyed reported sexual victimization in the past 12 months. The aggressors in these cases were males who use physical violence in 50 percent of their rapes. They possess a low education level and a low socioeconomic level; they probably experienced development in a dysfunctional family headed by a single parent house hold and have a previous history of violent offending. The pecking order which has a big deal in the matter of sexual assault in the prisons. The pecking order is like a rank structure in the prison which says where you are in how many people you have raped, the more people you rape the higher you go and it doesn’t matter which kind of sexual encounter you had as long as you were the person taking control of the matter. Not only that it is showing other people “Hey don’t mess with me cause the same thing that happened to this person can happen to you in the case of assault” in my opinion. In the state of Texas 5 out of 10 facilities with the highest reported
Dec. 3 2013
Sexual Assault in Prison Around the world people are in poisoned for various crimes including assault and rape. But people do not imagine going to prison and getting sexually assaulted like many people do every year. In 2001 a landmark report to the BJS, “ No escape: Male rape in the US prisons,” Human rights watched documented vicious and brutally violent male rapes in prison as well as other vulnerable people who were targeted. The prisoners who were mainly targeted in the video were young, physically small, weak, gay, first offenders, or have been convicted of a crime against a minor in the sexual nature. In the report research was done to see why sexual assault was happening it came out that sexual assault often occurred because the staff failed to supervise the inmates or respond to the complaints of unwanted sexual activity. In 2007 a report was given to the Bureau of Justice statistics which stated that 4.5 percent of the state and federal prisoners surveyed reported sexual victimization in the past 12 months. The aggressors in these cases were males who use physical violence in 50 percent of their rapes. They possess a low education level and a low socioeconomic level; they probably experienced development in a dysfunctional family headed by a single parent house hold and have a previous history of violent offending. The pecking order which has a big deal in the matter of sexual assault in the prisons. The pecking order is like a rank structure in the prison which says where you are in how many people you have raped, the more people you rape the higher you go and it doesn’t matter which kind of sexual encounter you had as long as you were the person taking control of the matter. Not only that it is showing other people “Hey don’t mess with me cause the same thing that happened to this person can happen to you in the case of assault” in my opinion. In the state of Texas 5 out of 10 facilities with the highest reported
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