Types of Sexuality
Based on the social dynamics of correctional facilities, some inmates have rationalized their sexual behaviors when incarcerated (Marcum 2014). In an attempt to acclimate and survive in a turbulent, violent environment, some inmates have adopted a new (social) role (Blackburn, Fowler, and Mullings 2014). Sexual orientation is one aspect that has been documented to be rather fluid among inmates once they have adjusted to the prison lifestyle (Hensley, Tewksbury, and Wright 2001). To demonstrate, some inmates have identified as heterosexuals prior to their incarceration, but the more time they served the more likely they are to identify as a homosexual as well as report a greater rate of same-sex encounters (Hensley et al. …show more content…
Including gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other groups of non-heterosexuals inmates, about ten percent of prisoners (12.2%) and jail inmates (8.5%) reported sexual victimization by inmates. Moreover, inmates that identified as transgender and intersex are slowly becoming recognized as gender categories by surveys encouraged by PREA (Beck 2015). Consequently, estimates of such person’s sexual victimization in correctional facilities will become more robust, and no longer confounded with other sexual orientations. In 2014, the BJS combined the NIS results to produce estimates of sexual victimization reported by transgender inmates (Beck 2014; Beck 2015). Around one-third of transgender prison inmates (35%) and jail inmates (34%) reported a sexual victimization by an inmate or staff person within the past 12 months of their incarceration (Beck 2014). A majority of transgender inmates reported that the sexual experience was in conjunction with a threat of force or force (74%). Given these points, non-heterosexual inmates are highly vulnerable to sexual victimization, which may be attributed to their perceived absence of …show more content…
It must also be remembered that various forms of sexual acts other than coerced sex have largely been understudied (Hensley et al. 2001). First and foremost, nearly all inmates have reported acts of masturbation while incarcerated. However, institutions have frowned upon this alternative sexual behavior even though it may reduce sexual coercion in correctional institutions.
Sexual relationships in these facilities can be at times be labeled as consensual homosexual interactions (Hensley, Tewksbury, and Wright 2001; Warren et al. 2010). Benefits gained from engaging in sexual relations with other inmates outweighed the need to obtain sex by force. Contrary to popular belief, and a majority of the research about prison rape at the time, Warren and her colleagues (2010) believed to be various forms of sexual relations which can be separated into three categories: bartered sex, coerced sex, and consensual
Based on the social dynamics of correctional facilities, some inmates have rationalized their sexual behaviors when incarcerated (Marcum 2014). In an attempt to acclimate and survive in a turbulent, violent environment, some inmates have adopted a new (social) role (Blackburn, Fowler, and Mullings 2014). Sexual orientation is one aspect that has been documented to be rather fluid among inmates once they have adjusted to the prison lifestyle (Hensley, Tewksbury, and Wright 2001). To demonstrate, some inmates have identified as heterosexuals prior to their incarceration, but the more time they served the more likely they are to identify as a homosexual as well as report a greater rate of same-sex encounters (Hensley et al. …show more content…
Including gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other groups of non-heterosexuals inmates, about ten percent of prisoners (12.2%) and jail inmates (8.5%) reported sexual victimization by inmates. Moreover, inmates that identified as transgender and intersex are slowly becoming recognized as gender categories by surveys encouraged by PREA (Beck 2015). Consequently, estimates of such person’s sexual victimization in correctional facilities will become more robust, and no longer confounded with other sexual orientations. In 2014, the BJS combined the NIS results to produce estimates of sexual victimization reported by transgender inmates (Beck 2014; Beck 2015). Around one-third of transgender prison inmates (35%) and jail inmates (34%) reported a sexual victimization by an inmate or staff person within the past 12 months of their incarceration (Beck 2014). A majority of transgender inmates reported that the sexual experience was in conjunction with a threat of force or force (74%). Given these points, non-heterosexual inmates are highly vulnerable to sexual victimization, which may be attributed to their perceived absence of …show more content…
It must also be remembered that various forms of sexual acts other than coerced sex have largely been understudied (Hensley et al. 2001). First and foremost, nearly all inmates have reported acts of masturbation while incarcerated. However, institutions have frowned upon this alternative sexual behavior even though it may reduce sexual coercion in correctional institutions.
Sexual relationships in these facilities can be at times be labeled as consensual homosexual interactions (Hensley, Tewksbury, and Wright 2001; Warren et al. 2010). Benefits gained from engaging in sexual relations with other inmates outweighed the need to obtain sex by force. Contrary to popular belief, and a majority of the research about prison rape at the time, Warren and her colleagues (2010) believed to be various forms of sexual relations which can be separated into three categories: bartered sex, coerced sex, and consensual