Inmate-to-Inmate Prison Sexuality: A Review of Empirical Studies

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 226-243

  Hensley, Christopher ^a   Tewksbury, Richard ^b  

^a MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

coerced inmate sex; consensual inmate sex; inmate prison sex; inmate pseudofamilies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997895808     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15248380020033005     Document Type: Article

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