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New Article About Prison Rape

By Corey Rayburnyung

A helpful reader sent along an interesting article entitled Prison Rape in Context. Unfortunately, viewing the article requires a subscription, but you can view the abstract here. From the abstract: Fear of sexual violence is a defining characteristic of the prison experience in the United States. Rape has been a key theme in the literature on imprisonment since at least the 1930s. There is evidence-from prison argot and epidemiological studies in particular-that this problem is not as ingrained in the UK. Clearly there is more at play here than sexual deprivation and the pains of confinement, which know no jurisdictional boundary. It is suggested that the answer may lie, to some extent at least, in the poisonous history of race relations in the United States: prison rape can be seen as a legacy of slavery and the lynch mob...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).