TY - JOUR
T1 - Forced Sexual Victimization Among Youth in Custody
T2 - Do Risk Factors Vary by Gender and Perpetrator?
AU - Ahlin, Eileen M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Ahlin Eileen M. 1 1 Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, USA Eileen M. Ahlin, Criminal Justice Department, Penn State Harrisburg, 160-W Olmsted Building, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057, USA. Email: [email protected] 12 2019 0032885519894561 © 2019 SAGE Publications 2019 SAGE Publications There is relatively little literature examining risk factors associated with sexual victimization among youth in custody. The current study explored whether risk of forced sexual victimization among youth in custody differs by gender or perpetrator. Using data from a sample of 8,659 youth who participated in the National Survey of Youth in Custody, multivariate logistic regression models were employed to investigate gender differences in risk factors associated with overall forced sexual victimization and staff-on-inmate and inmate-on-inmate forced sexual victimization. Findings suggest that gender differences are more pronounced when perpetrator type is considered. youth in custody forced sexual victimization gender perpetrator Office of Research and Outreach at Penn State Harrisburg edited-state corrected-proof typesetter ts1 The author thanks Arun Mathur and Tom Zelnock for facilitating access to the data enclave at ICPSR and to the Department of Justice for granting permissions to analyze the data. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the Office of Research and Outreach at Penn State Harrisburg.
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PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - There is relatively little literature examining risk factors associated with sexual victimization among youth in custody. The current study explored whether risk of forced sexual victimization among youth in custody differs by gender or perpetrator. Using data from a sample of 8,659 youth who participated in the National Survey of Youth in Custody, multivariate logistic regression models were employed to investigate gender differences in risk factors associated with overall forced sexual victimization and staff-on-inmate and inmate-on-inmate forced sexual victimization. Findings suggest that gender differences are more pronounced when perpetrator type is considered.
AB - There is relatively little literature examining risk factors associated with sexual victimization among youth in custody. The current study explored whether risk of forced sexual victimization among youth in custody differs by gender or perpetrator. Using data from a sample of 8,659 youth who participated in the National Survey of Youth in Custody, multivariate logistic regression models were employed to investigate gender differences in risk factors associated with overall forced sexual victimization and staff-on-inmate and inmate-on-inmate forced sexual victimization. Findings suggest that gender differences are more pronounced when perpetrator type is considered.
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U2 - 10.1177/0032885519894561
DO - 10.1177/0032885519894561
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077158617
SN - 0032-8855
VL - 100
SP - 151
EP - 172
JO - Prison Journal
JF - Prison Journal
IS - 2
ER -