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Article: Consensual Homosexual Activity in Male Prisons.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The topic of sexual coercion in ale prisons has received much more academic attention and debate than consensual homosexual activity in prison literature (Bowker, 1980; Nacci and Kane 1983; Lockwood, 1980; Sagarin, 1976; Saum, Surratt, Inclardi and Bennett, 1995; Scacco, 1975; Struckman-Johnson, Rucker, Bumby and Donaldson, 1996; Tewksbury, 1989; Wooden and Parker, 1982). According to Saum et al. (1995), this may be due to the nature of the homosexual acts. Saum et al. (1995) also argued that "consensual sex is seen as less of a threat to inmate or institutional security than rape and thus does not demand the attention of more violent behavior" (415). Only four studies ...