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University of Missouri, St. Louis

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2021

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Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2003: Individual Factors For Victimization And Offending, Bailey Saldana Jul 2021

Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2003: Individual Factors For Victimization And Offending, Bailey Saldana

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The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 was passed in order to provide a set of guidelines for reporting and reacting to prison rapes (PREA, 2020). This project uses secondary data from the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities to identify factors associated with prison rape victimization. Rates of institutional violence have not decreased as have the rates of violence outside of institutions (Wooldredge, 2020; Morgan & Truman, 2020). One area of institutional violence research that is lacking is prison rape research. As more research is done on prison rape victimization, this project extends on this body …