San Francisco Public Library

Prison rape, an American institution?, Michael Singer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index

index present

non fiction

Prison rape

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Michael Singer

an American institution?

Michael Singer explores the empirical, legal, and socio-cultural factors of rape in prison"Each year, as many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent or repeated rape. Those who are outside the incarceration experience are largely unaware of this ongoing physical and mental damage--abuses that not only affect the victims and perpetrators, but also impose vast costs on society as a whole. This book supplies a uniquely full account of this widespread sexual abuse problem. Author Michael Singer has drawn on official reports to provide a realistic assessment of the staggering financial cost to society of this sexual abuse, and comprehensively addressed the current, severely limited legal procedures for combating sexual abuse in incarceration. The book also provides an evaluation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 and its recently announced national standards, and assesses their likely future impact on the institution of prison rape in America"--Provided by publisher

Recognition of the prevalence of sexual abuse -- Assessment of the prevalence of sexual abuse -- Recent developments -- The suffering of victims -- The cost to society at large -- The moral cost to American society -- State and comparable federal laws -- Federal constitutional lawsuits -- The first ten years -- The national standards -- The future of the American institution of prison rape