BJS Releases Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2019–2020 – Statistical Tables
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a program office within the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, today released Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2019–2020 – Statistical Tables. This report presents counts and rates of allegations of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual victimization across all types of adult correctional facilities.
In contrast to prior reports, allegations and substantiated incidents of inmate-on-inmate sexual harassment are presented with the other two types of inmate-perpetrated victimization: nonconsensual sexual acts and abusive sexual contact. This change to reporting sexual victimization facilitates the ability to present trends across these victimization types and better aligns with future data collections.
Findings in this report are based on the Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV), which BJS has conducted annually since 2004. The SSV is among the data collections that BJS conducts to meet the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108–79).
| Title: | Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2019–2020 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 308553) |
| Author: | Emily D. Buehler, Ph.D., BJS Statistician, and Shelby Kottke-Weaver, Ph.D., BJS Statistician |
| Where: | https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/sexual-victimization-reported-adult-correctional-authorities-2019-2020 |
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Kevin M. Scott, Ph.D, is the acting director. More information about BJS and criminal justice statistics can be found at bjs.ojp.gov.
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