Sexuality and the Prisons Flashcards
Selling (1931) proposed friendship, pseudo-family membership and pseudo-homosexuality, what are they?
Friendship: natural relationship
Pseudo-family membership: emotional dissatisfaction with own family.
Pseudo-homosexuality: Platonic, homo-social relations
Why does Giallombardo (1966) suggest that women get in relationships in prison?
Social, psychological or physiological deficiencies.
They are not self-sufficient and have to be dependent on masculine partners.
What percentage of girls had engaged in girl stuff both in prison and prior to prison?
69% in prison and 9% before.
What percentage of women had one homosexual encounter in prison?
86%
What percentage of females were ‘going out with’ or ‘married’ to another girl?
14%
What are 3 causes of prison homosexuality?
Previous homo, physical and psychological rewards and positive returns of relationship
Women under the age of what? and on what? sentences are more likely to engage in sexual behaviour?
Age 34, and those on longer sentences
What races are more likely to engage in two types of sexual behaviour?
Black and Hispanic
Which religions are more likely to perform oral sex?
Non-protestant perform oral sex
Which is more common, coerced or consensual sex in general?
Consensual
When coercion is involved does this involve staff or inmates?
Both
What percentage of men in prison identify themselves as heterosexual and what percentage then engage in homosexual acts?
78% identify as straight but 65% engage in homo acts
Davies (1968) suggest that 4.7% of prisoners are sexually assaulted, what is the real figure closer to?
60%
What percentage of sexual assaults involve a Black perpetrator and white victim?
75%
Chonco (1989) suggests 5 characteristics that increase your chance of victimisation in prison, what are they?
Youth and attractiveness, first time in prison, don’t belong to a gang, display fear and display characteristics similar to female stereotypes?
