The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report yesterday afternoon on the prevalence of sexual violence in juvenile detention centers. An estimated 4,072 accounts of sexual violence were reported during 2005 and 2006:
An estimated 36 percent of the allegations of sexual violence in juvenile facilities were youth-on-youth nonconsensual sexual acts, such as rape and forcible sodomy; 21 percent were youth-on-youth abusive sexual contacts, such as unwanted touching or grabbing with the intention to exploit sexually.About 32 percent of all allegations of sexual violence reported in state juvenile systems and local or private juvenile facilities involved staff sexual misconduct, defined as any act of a sexual nature directed toward a youth, either consensual or nonconsensual; 11 percent involved staff sexual harassment, including repeated comments or demeaning references of a sexual nature to a youth.
Victims of substantiated incidents of youth-on-youth sexual violence were more likely to be male (73 percent) than victims of staff-on-youth violence (49 percent). Females were more likely to be victims of staff sexual violence than victims of youth-on-youth sexual violence (51 percent versus 27 percent).
Check out the entire report.
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Call me crazy, but isn't "forcible sodomy," uh, rape? What's the deal with differentiating the two?
Zula-
"What's the deal with differentiating the two?"
I believe that a good amount of it happens to men changes the language.
I recall a police officer telling my high school law class that the threats of "sharing a cell with bubba" (to use his precise words) Typically causes people to plea bargain.
Gosh, I'm sure nothing makes you a better "productive member of society" than being raped by an authority figure! And of course we shouldn't even concern ourselves with the boys because anal rape is just part of prison life!