Jones Tonisha R, Pratt Travis C
Department of Political Science/Criminal Justice at Washington State University, 801 Johnson Tower, Pullman, WA 99164-4880, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2008 Jun;52(3):280-95. doi: 10.1177/0306624X07307631. Epub 2007 Sep 24.
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.
监狱暴力和不当行为问题一直是学术关注的焦点，但监狱内特定的暴力受害领域却相对未被关注。其中一个领域涉及监狱中的性暴力。学者们认为，性暴力会引发一系列机构层面和个人层面的问题，但这一文献主体的主要局限在于，它在很大程度上局限于对监狱强奸发生率的方法存疑的研究。因此，本研究的目的是批判性地评估目前关于监狱性暴力发生率已知和未知的情况。在此过程中，它突出了未来研究应采取的方向，以便制定有关监狱性暴力的循证政策。
