The article, “NIJ’s Response to the Prison Rape Elimination Act” has a very strong message while also sharing important details that one may not be aware of in the first place. The main objective of this piece is to show what this act has accomplished in the three years it has be up and running, since this article was written in February of 2006 in Corrections Today and to also educate the reader on the complex problem of sexual assault in prisons nationwide. Some of the findings are examining how it has progressed, the National Study it went under, the Research Solicitations such as Prevention, Risk Assessment, and Medical-Psychological Impact, Protecting Human Research Subjects, and Looking to the Future. Some other things to look into inside
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The way that this Corrections class and this article intercept each other can be most easily found in Chapter eleven, where it is described as “homosexual behavior in male prisons”. Rape is something that can happen to any inmate and is usually a sign to maintain power over the general population of the prison and to generate fear and to maintain power over the general population of the prison. The main topic though is the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which is the entire premises of this article and is a well know Act throughout every prison in the United States. This act, which went into effect in 2003, has changed the ways prisons have gone about reporting and aiding inmates who have been affected by a sexual encounter that was unwanted.
After reading the text, a broad observation can be formed that rape in prisons is still an event that happens, even with PREA being inducted. It’s not that prisons aren’t doing their jobs, but that the ways they have attempted to tone it down haven’t worked. Anonymous and confidential interviews were the way researchers even knew it was happening and “to understand their perspective on consensual and coercive sex and rape” (P. 4). The …show more content…
They also don’t talk about why it happens either, which I feel as if is an important thing to understand if you are going to be researching something like this topic mainly because everyone should be educated on it in my opinion. Even on that note, the authors do extensive research on the information they need and have shared, such as explaining the number and gender of inmates they will interviewed for their studies. But, I don’t see the point of conducting interviews with inmates who claim they have been sexually abused, not saying that they haven’t, but you can’t always trust what someone says to you in an interview, and cannot use those numbers to indicate how accurate your numbers will be, those numbers being the percent saying they have felt threatened or abused. I feel like that is my main issue with this article that they do go into depth, but I feel as if it is not in the right places that they should be emphasizing. With that being said, I do agree with what the authors have done with the background and giving the information needed for maybe someone who already understands all the terms that are being used. I do validate the
The way that this Corrections class and this article intercept each other can be most easily found in Chapter eleven, where it is described as “homosexual behavior in male prisons”. Rape is something that can happen to any inmate and is usually a sign to maintain power over the general population of the prison and to generate fear and to maintain power over the general population of the prison. The main topic though is the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which is the entire premises of this article and is a well know Act throughout every prison in the United States. This act, which went into effect in 2003, has changed the ways prisons have gone about reporting and aiding inmates who have been affected by a sexual encounter that was unwanted.
After reading the text, a broad observation can be formed that rape in prisons is still an event that happens, even with PREA being inducted. It’s not that prisons aren’t doing their jobs, but that the ways they have attempted to tone it down haven’t worked. Anonymous and confidential interviews were the way researchers even knew it was happening and “to understand their perspective on consensual and coercive sex and rape” (P. 4). The …show more content…
They also don’t talk about why it happens either, which I feel as if is an important thing to understand if you are going to be researching something like this topic mainly because everyone should be educated on it in my opinion. Even on that note, the authors do extensive research on the information they need and have shared, such as explaining the number and gender of inmates they will interviewed for their studies. But, I don’t see the point of conducting interviews with inmates who claim they have been sexually abused, not saying that they haven’t, but you can’t always trust what someone says to you in an interview, and cannot use those numbers to indicate how accurate your numbers will be, those numbers being the percent saying they have felt threatened or abused. I feel like that is my main issue with this article that they do go into depth, but I feel as if it is not in the right places that they should be emphasizing. With that being said, I do agree with what the authors have done with the background and giving the information needed for maybe someone who already understands all the terms that are being used. I do validate the