A new study of prisoner sex abuse has been released. Its most interesting finding is that females are much more likely than men to claim abuse by other inmates, by a margin of 20 percent of women to 3.5 percent of men.
I wish the study/article was a little more clear on the characteristics of the abusers. I assume all the prisoners in question were segregated by gender, so that would mean female-inmate-on-female-inmate abuse is common in this setting. But the omission is more problematic when it comes to staff abuse (8 percent of females and less than 1 percent of males), as the article doesn’t say how many womens’-prison staffers are men.
Finally, the study is based on self-reports, so it should face a great deal of skepticism. Inmates might over-report to make the prison system look bad, or under-report out of shame.
Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.
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