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NCJ Number: NCJ 221946  Add to Shoppping Cart  
Title: Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007
Series: BJS Special Reports
Author(s): Allen J Beck Ph.D. ; Paige M Harrison
Corporate Author: Bureau of Justice Statistics
US Dept of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
United States
Date Published: 06/2008
Page Count: 43
Sale Source: Justice Statistics Clearinghouse/NCJRS
P.O. Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
Document: Text PDF 
Agency Summary: Agency Summary 
Type: Statistical data
Language: English
Country: United States
Annotation: This report presents data from the 2007 National Inmate Survey (NIS), conducted in 282 local jails between April and December, with a sample of 40,419 inmates.
Abstract: The report and appendix tables provide a listing of results for sampled local jails, as required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-79). Facilities are listed alphabetically by State with estimated prevalence rates of sexual victimization as reported by inmates during a personal interview and based on activity in the 6 months prior to the interview or since admission to the facility, if shorter. The report includes national-level and facility-level estimates of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contacts, inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate victimization, and level of coercion. It also includes estimates of the standard error for selected measures of sexual victimization and summary characteristics of victims and incidents. Data collected from prison inmates in the National Inmate Survey were reported in Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007, released in December 2007. Highlights from the survey include the following: (1) about 1.6 percent of inmates (12,100, nationwide) reported an incident involving another inmate, and 2.0 percent (15,200) reported an incident involving staff; (2) inmate-on-inmate victimization occurred most often in the victim’s cell (56 percent); staff-on-inmate victimization occurred in a closet, office, or other locked room (47 percent); and (3) an estimated 5.1 percent of female inmates, compared to 2.9 percent of male inmates, said they had experienced one or more incidents of sexual victimization.
Main Term(s): Inmate statistics
Index Term(s): Jail statistics ; Sex offenses ; Jails ; Sexual assault ; Prisoner sexual assault ; Jail management
 
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