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  • 021723

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  • Published 2006.
  • 16 pages.

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Sexual Punishments

Publication year: 2006 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The intrinsic relationship between sexual coercion and imprisonment is explained. This article is comprised of four parts: sex and sexuality in U.S. prisons; imprisonment as a non-corporal punishment; the failure of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) -- the Act "fails either to recognize the complicated forms of sexual coercion or to address the underlying structural problems with the prison" (p. 146); and conclusion.
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