Sexual misconduct in prison: What factors affect whether incarcerated women will report abuses committed by prison staff?

Sheryl P. Kubiak; Hannah J. Brenner; Deborah Bybee; Rebecca Campbell; Cristy E. Cummings; Kathleen M. Darcy; Gina Fedock; Rachael Goodman-Williams

doi:10.1037/lhb0000239

Sexual misconduct in prison: What factors affect whether incarcerated women will report abuses committed by prison staff?

Law and Human Behavior ◽

10.1037/lhb0000239 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 361-374 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sheryl P. Kubiak ◽

Hannah J. Brenner ◽

Deborah Bybee ◽

Rebecca Campbell ◽

Cristy E. Cummings ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Misconduct ◽

Incarcerated Women ◽

Prison Staff

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“Terrified of a System I Didn’t Understand”: Reporting Staff Sexual Misconduct Against Women on Parole

Feminist Criminology ◽

10.1177/15570851211045641 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155708512110456

Author(s):

Kathleen Darcy ◽

Gina Fedock ◽

Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Sexual Victimization ◽

Sexual Misconduct ◽

Incarcerated Women ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Research Directions ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Probation And Parole ◽

Reporting Decisions ◽

Cautionary Tales

Incarcerated women experience staff-perpetrated sexual victimization at high rates, yet limited research exists regarding women’s experiences of this victimization while on probation and parole, particularly regarding their formal reporting decisions. This qualitative study explored the formal reporting decisions for 10 women who experienced staff-perpetrated sexual victimization while on parole. Women who formally reported their victimization experiences qualitatively differed from non-reporting women in terms of the dynamics and their identification of victimization (e.g., viewing as support vs. fear) and in the types of structural barriers (e.g., vulnerability and cautionary tales) they encountered. These findings highlight policy, practice, theory, and research directions.

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Doing Gender as Self-Improvement: An Exploration of How Incarcerated Men and Women Interpret the Advice From Prison Employees

Feminist Criminology ◽

10.1177/1557085116687034 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 516-542 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rebecca Trammell ◽

Timbre Wulf-Ludden ◽

Nicole Pyfer ◽

Emily Jakobitz ◽

Jordan Mullins-Orcutt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Incarcerated Women ◽

Doing Gender ◽

Female Inmates ◽

Prison Staff ◽

Men And Women ◽

Male And Female ◽

Staff Members ◽

Personal Transformations ◽

Incarcerated Men

In this article, we use interview data ( n = 383) to evaluate how male and female inmates perceive the help they receive from prison staff members. Men were more likely to claim that staff members help them gain real-world job and educational skills while women claim that staff members made them see the error of their ways and push them to self-improve while in prison. We find that inmates are aligning their personal transformations in prison along gender lines and this may fail to help these incarcerated women prepare for the economic realities of the reentry process.

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