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Preventing and Responding to Corrections-Based Sexual Abuse A Guide for Community Corrections Professionals - December 2006 - American Probation and Parole Association With The International Community Corrections Association And Pretrial Justice Institute

This project collected and reviewed literature and existing strategies implemented by community corrections professionals in compliance with PREA. To accomplish this goal, APPA convened a working group to identify salient issues related to complying with PREA provisions as well as training and technical assistance needs of the field.

 PREA  Standards

  •            Standards: Adult Prisons and Jails with Immigration Supplement
  •            Standards: Lockups
  •            Standards: Community Corrections
  •            Standards: Juvenile Facilities

     

    PRESS RELEASE: American Probation and Parole Association Announces New Partnership with NCTI

    The following organizations have staff certified to teach NCTI's Preventing Staff Sexual Misconduct Against Offenders Workshop: 

                              Bexar County Juvenile Probation
                              Kerr County Sheriff Department
                              Denton County Sheriff's Office
                              38th Judicial District
                              2nd 25th Judicial District
                              Harris County CSCD
                              Randall County Probation Department
                              El Paso Juvenile Probation Department
                              Collin County CSCD
                              Central Texas Treatment Center
                              Management and Training Corporation
                              Kaufman County Sheriff's Office
                              McLennan County CSCD
                              Nueces County Juvenile Justice Center
                              Lubbock County CSCD
                              Guadalupe County Adult Detention
                              Gregg County Juvenile Department
                              Smith County Juvenile Services
                              West Texas CSCD
                              Titus County Sheriff's Office
                              Bowie County Recovery Center
                              Hunt County Sheriffls Department
                              Jefferson County Juvenile Probation

                Info

    Additional Research

    • Eigenberg, Helen and Agnes Baro. "If You Drop the Soap in the Shower You Are on Your Own: Images of Male Rape in Selected Prison Movies." Sexuality & Culture, 7:4, 2003. 56-89.
    • English, Kim and Peggy Heil. "Prison Rape: What We Know Today." Corrections Compendium, 30:5, 2005. 1-5, 42 - 44.
    • Hensley, Christopher, Robert W. Dumond, Richard Tewksbury, and Doris A. Dumond. "Possible Solutions for Preventing Inmate Sexual Assault: Examining Wardens' Beliefs."  American Journal of Criminal Justice, 27:1, 2002. 19-33.
    • Hensley, Christopher, Mary Koscheski, and Richard Tewksbury. "The Impact of Institutional Factors on Officially Reported Sexual Assaults in Prisons." Sexuality & Culture, 7:4, 2003. 16-26.
    • Hensley, Christopher, Tammy Castle and Richard Tewksbury. "Sexual Coercion in a Southern Female Correctional Facility." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 37:2, 2002. 77-87.
    • Hensley, Christopher and Richard Tewksbury. "Inmate-to-Inmate Prison Sexuality: A Review of Empirical Studies." Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 3:3, 2002. 226-243.
    • Hensley, Christopher, Richard Tewksbury, and Mary Koscheski. "The Characteristics and Motivations Behind Female Prison Sex." Women & Criminal Justice, 3, 2002. 125-139.
    • McCampbell, Susan W. and Elizabeth Layman. "The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 and Law Enforcement Agencies: What Every Law Enforcement Executive Needs to Know Instructor?s Guide, Lesson Plans and Resources." Center for Innovative Public Policies, Inc. May 2007.
    • National Judicial College. "What Judges Need to Know About Prison Rape: The Prison Rape Elimination Act." CD-ROM (Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008).
    • National District Attorneys Association. "The Prosecution of Prison Rape and the Prison Rape Elimination Act: A Model Curriculum for Prosecutors and the Prosecution of Prison Rape: The Prison Rape Elimination Act." CD-ROM (Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008).
    • Sumner, Jennifer Macy and Kristy N. Matsuda. "Shining Light in Dark Corners: An Overview of Prison Rape Elimination Legislation and Introduction to Current Research." University of California, Irvine, 2006. (unpublished).
    • Wolff, N., Shi, J., Blitz, C. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Types and Sources of Victimization Inside Prison." The Prison Journal, in press.
    • Worley, Robert, James W. Marquart and Janet L. Mullings. "Prison Guard Predators: An Analysis of Inmates Who Established Inappropriate Relationships with Prison Staff,1995-1998." Deviant Behavior, 24:2, 2003. 175-194.
    • Wolff, N., Shi, J., Blitz, C., Siegel, J. "Understanding Sexual Victimization Inside Prisons: Factors that Predict Risk." Criminology " Public Policy, 2007; 6(3):201-231.
    • Wolff, N., Shi, J., Bachman, R. "Measuring Victimization Inside Prison: Questioning the Questions." Journal of Interpersonal Violence, in press.
    • Wolff, N. Shi, J., Siegel, J. "Patterns of Victimization Among Male and Female Inmates: Evidence of an Enduring Legacy." Violence & Victims, in press.
    • Wolff, N., Shi, J. "Contextualization of Physical and Sexual Assault in Male Prisons: The Incidents and their Aftermath." Journal of Correctional Health Care, Volume 12 (1), in press.
    • Wolff, N., Shi, J. "Patterns of Victimization and Feelings of Safety Inside Prison: The Experience of Male and Female Inmates." Crime and Delinquency, in press.
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