PREDICTIVE VARIABLES FOR SEXUAL CONDUCT VIOLATIONS IN INDIANA STATE PRISONS

Sexual violence in prisons is not a new concept, but rather has been a defining characteristic of the American Criminal Justice System. There have been many efforts to lower the risk of sexual violence in prison, such as the passing of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003 by President George W. Bush. However, almost all current programs geared towards lowering prison rape are retroactive and focus on helping the victim cope or helping to reduce the risk of recidivism for sexual violent victims. There fails to exist analysis on the characteristics of perpetrations of sexual violence in prison that might have predictive capability for reducing the number of sexual conduct violations committed. By using intersectionality and symbolic interactionism to identify characteristics that are common among offenders that commit sexual violence in Indiana State Prisons, a predictive, dynamic model can be used to flag potential perpetrators of sexual conduct violations.

Creator

• Lalioff, Megan

Mitwirkende

• Wynn, Colleen E.
• Moore, Mary

Publisher

• University of Indianapolis

Language

• en

Identifier

• Thesis_Final 10-10-19.docx

Stichwort

• Department of Sociology

Date created

• 10/10/2019

Resource type

• Masters Thesis

Source

• S64

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/