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Special Report on NIJ Research Travesty
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Reasons why the research of Mark Fleisher, a cultural anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) is "flawed, sloppy, and irresponsible" are explained. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) gave $939,233 to Fleisher to conduct prisoner rape research. Sections comprising this report are: standards not met while publicity still sought; NIJ warned of bias in advance; flawed reasoning; opining about frequency; significance of terminology; incoherent language; "lore" vs. reality; and an urgent call to NIJ for action. Fleisher's observations prompted Reggie B. Walton, U.S. District Judge and Chairman of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to remark, "To take the position that it's not a problem and prisons are safe places is asinine."