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Physical Violence Inside Prisons: Rates of Victimization

Nancy Wolff1*, Cynthia L. Blitz, Jing Shi1, Jane Siegel1, Ronet Bachman2

1 Rutgers University
2 University of Delaware

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nwolff{at}ifh.rutgers.edu.


  Abstract
This study estimates prevalence rates of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate physical victimization. Inmate participants were drawn from 13 adult male prisons and 1 female prison operated by a single mid-Atlantic state. A total of 7,221 men and 564 women participated. Rates of physical victimization varied significantly by gender, perpetrator, question wording, and facility. Prevalence rates of inmate-on-inmate physical violence in the previous 6 months were equal for males and females. Men had significantly higher rates of physical violence perpetrated by staff than by other inmates. By facility, inmate-on-inmate prevalence rates ranged from 129 to 346 per 1,000, whereas the range for staff-on-inmate was 83 to 321 per 1,000 (but the difference was not statistically significant).

First published on April 4, 2007, doi:10.1177/0093854806296830

Criminal Justice and Behavior 2007;34:588.

A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2007

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