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Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2004
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: This Bureau of Justice Statistics report results from the "first-ever national survey of administrative records on sexual violence in adult and juvenile correctional facilities" (p. 1). Some highlights include: more than 2,700 correctional facilities holding 79% of all adults and juveniles in custody were surveyed; 8,210 allegations of sexual violence were reported in the U.S. during 2004 -- 42% involved staff sexual misconduct, 37% inmate-on-inmate nonconsensual sexual acts; 11% staff sexual harassment, and 10% abusive sexual contact; and nearly 2,100 incidents of sexual violence were substantiated by correctional authorities with only 30% of investigations being completed.