In correctional institutions the world over there is a problem, violence, in particular sexual violence has been and continues to be a major issue facing inmates and corrections officers alike . My paper will set its focus on instances of sexual violence in female correctional institutions and how the attention brought to the issue differs on either side of the Canadian-American border . This paper will also focus on the sexual behaviors of women who are incarcerated , in particular corrections officer or employee sexual violence towards female inmates as well as touching on the reverse, inmate on corrections officer violence .
The first journal I came across by Pardue, Arrigo and Murphy (2011) discusses and breaks down they types of …show more content…
The canadian legal system is famous for having quite short sentence given to crimes which was touched on a little in class , the example given in Ellenbogen, (2009) is for burglary with an Canadian who commits a burglary getting on average 5 months and their American counterpart getting on average a 16 months sentence for the same crime . This could contribute to less instances of sexual violence but somethning that was cited again in Ellenbogen, (2009) was that Amerian prisons still had what seemed like just as big of a problem with instances of sexual violence in prisons when they had a smaller incarseration rate than they do now …show more content…
In Cnada conjigal visits are allowed for nonviolent offenders and the argument is that sexual violence would be reduced in the United States if they adopted a similar practice . It does not take much to realize that this argument falls apart when you consider the actual crimes being commited , most if not all of the time sexual violence is about power more than it is about the sex itself , and people who are incarserated already have very little power over their lives and so the addition of conjgal visit programs in the United States would probably have very little effect in terms of stopping sexual violence . I am also personally of the opinion that providing conjgual visits in the United States in womens prisons would do perhaps even less to deture
the instances of sexual violence because there are more instances where it it a male or female corrections officer who is the prepetrator of the violence and they are free to do what they may in their homes and yet there are some who still take advantage of prisoners who are in a controled environment
The first journal I came across by Pardue, Arrigo and Murphy (2011) discusses and breaks down they types of …show more content…
The canadian legal system is famous for having quite short sentence given to crimes which was touched on a little in class , the example given in Ellenbogen, (2009) is for burglary with an Canadian who commits a burglary getting on average 5 months and their American counterpart getting on average a 16 months sentence for the same crime . This could contribute to less instances of sexual violence but somethning that was cited again in Ellenbogen, (2009) was that Amerian prisons still had what seemed like just as big of a problem with instances of sexual violence in prisons when they had a smaller incarseration rate than they do now …show more content…
In Cnada conjigal visits are allowed for nonviolent offenders and the argument is that sexual violence would be reduced in the United States if they adopted a similar practice . It does not take much to realize that this argument falls apart when you consider the actual crimes being commited , most if not all of the time sexual violence is about power more than it is about the sex itself , and people who are incarserated already have very little power over their lives and so the addition of conjgal visit programs in the United States would probably have very little effect in terms of stopping sexual violence . I am also personally of the opinion that providing conjgual visits in the United States in womens prisons would do perhaps even less to deture
the instances of sexual violence because there are more instances where it it a male or female corrections officer who is the prepetrator of the violence and they are free to do what they may in their homes and yet there are some who still take advantage of prisoners who are in a controled environment