Sex logics: Negotiating the prison rape elimination act (PREA) against its’ administrative, safety, and cultural burdens

2020 ◽  
pp. 146247452095215
Author(s):  
Danielle S Rudes ◽  
Shannon Magnuson ◽  
Shannon Portillo ◽  
Angela Hattery
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Prison Rape ◽  
Correctional Policy ◽  
Prison Rape Elimination Act ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Control Work

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) reforms correctional institutions via administrative mechanisms and represents a major shift in both correctional policy and workplace practice. Using qualitative data within six prisons in one U.S. state, finding suggest that staff view PREA as an administrative, safety, and cultural burden, which creates a misalignment of institutional logics. Rather than seeing themselves as central to eliminating prison sexual misconduct/violence, staff see PREA as interfering with their “real” custody/control work. This misalignment has major implications for the productive implementation and use of PREA and the broader shift to administrative rather than legal processes for institutional reform.

An Analysis of Statutes Criminalizing Correctional Officer Sexual Misconduct With Inmates

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-148
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Kowalski ◽  
Xiaohan Mei ◽  
John R. Turner ◽  
Mary K. Stohr ◽  
Craig Hemmens
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Correctional Officer ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Correctional Staff ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Prison Rape ◽  
Prison Rape Elimination Act ◽  
Correctional Systems ◽  
Sexually Victimized

The 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) mandates that U.S. state correctional systems regulate and reduce staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities. As data on correctional officer sexual misconduct are limited and its legal definition varies across states, this study utilized statutory analysis to document how staff sexual misconduct is defined and how it is punished across state correctional systems. The most notable finding is that although all 50 states have statutes designed to protect incarcerated persons from being sexually victimized by correctional staff, they are far from uniform.

The Impact of Privatization on Minority Faith Prison Chaplains in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Adar Abdulkadir ◽  
Ibrahim J. Long
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Federal Prison ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Prison Chaplains ◽  
The Impact

Canadian federal prison chaplaincy underwent a major shift in 2013 when the provision of its services was privatized and outsourced to a single for-profit company. This article presents a summary of the experiences and concerns expressed by minority faith chaplains serving in federal correctional institutions following privatization. It is based on ten in-depth, semi-structured interviews with minority faith prison chaplains. The results show that minority faith federal prison chaplains are concerned about increased levels of bureaucratization that have compromised the quality of spiritual care available to prisoners, reductions in resources for chaplains, and increased levels of emotional exhaustion and frustration among themselves and fellow minority faith chaplains serving in Canadian correctional facilities.

scholarly journals An Institutional Logics Perspective on the Gig Economy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Frenken ◽  
Taneli Vaskelainen ◽  
Lea Fünfschilling ◽  
Laura Piscicelli
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
The Self ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
Traditional Roles

We witness rising tensions between online gig-economy platforms, tax agencies, regulators and labor unions. In this paper, we use the framework of institutional logics as an analytical lens and scheme to understand the fundamental institutional challenges prompted by the advent of the online gig economy. We view gig-economy platforms as corporations that organize and self-regulate markets. In doing so, they span two parallel markets: the market for platforms competing to provide intermediation services and the market for the self-employed competing on platforms to provide peer-to-peer services. Self-regulation by platforms also weakens the traditional roles of the state. While the corporation and market logics empower the platform, they weaken self-employed suppliers as platforms' design constrain suppliers to grow into a fully-fledged business by limiting their entrepreneurial freedom. At the same time, current labor law generally does not classify suppliers as employees of the platform company, which limits the possibility to unionize. The current resolutions to this institutional misalignment are sought in "band aid solutions" at the level of sectors. Instead, as we argue, macro-institutional reform may be needed to re-institutionalize gig work into established institutional logics.

Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh ◽  
Bridget K. Diamond-Welch
Keyword(s):  
Prison Rape ◽  
Prison Rape Elimination Act

Vera and the Prison Rape Elimination Act

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Tara Graham ◽  
Allison Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
National Standards ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Prison Rape ◽  
Prison Rape Elimination Act ◽  
Original Goal ◽  
The Creation

In 2003, Congress unanimously passed the landmark Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). The legislation established a zero-tolerance standard for sexual abuse in U.S. correctional facilities. Implicitly, PREA recognized that sending individuals to facilities where sexual abuse is tolerated is equal to the imposition of a greater—and unintended—punishment. PREA also called for the creation of a national commission to study the causes and consequences of sexual abuse in confinement and to issue national standards for preventing, detecting, responding to, and monitoring such abuse. The Commissioners believe that standard compliance will result in achieving PREA's original goal: the protection of incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse.

New Hope for Victims of Prison Sexual Assault

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Samia Mair ◽  
Shannon Frattaroli ◽  
Stephen P. Teret
Keyword(s):  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Prison Rape ◽  
Prison Rape Elimination Act ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Unanimous Consent

Senate Bill 1435, the “Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003,” was introduced into the Senate on July 21, 2003, and in less than a week passed both the Senate and House by unanimous consent. The Bill was presented to President Bush on September 2, 2003, and he signed it two days later on September 4, 2003. The stated purposes of the Act are far-reaching and ambitious:(1)establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;(2)make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;(3)develop and implement national standards For the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;(4)increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;(5)standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;

From ‘mommy’ to ‘like’: tackling the emergence of abstractness during the second year of life using an ecological approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Bellagamba ◽  
Anna M. Borghi ◽  
Claudia Mazzuca ◽  
Giulia Pecora ◽  
Fabiana Ferrara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Incremental Growth ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Abstract Words

The first abstract words, terms not referring to here and now, are acquired slowly in infancy. They are difficult to acquire as they are more detached from sensory modalities than concrete words. Recent theories propose that, because of their complexity, other people are pivotal for abstract concepts’ acquisition and use. Eight children (4 girls) and their mothers were observed longitudinally and extensively from 11 to 24 months of age, using a multiple case study method. We documented real time age of acquisition of abstract vocabulary in an interactive mother-child situation. Children progressively use more abstract concepts, with a major shift from 12-15 months and again from 22-24 months, but the qualitative data testify an incremental growth of abstract concepts. We also identified a progression in the acquisition of abstract concepts in relation to the overall productive vocabulary, suggesting that having more abstract terms in one’s vocabulary promotes faster language acquisition.

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