Forced Sexual Victimization among Youth in Custody: Do Risk Factors Vary by Gender and Perpetrator?

<jats:p> 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. /jats:p

Ahlin, Forced Sexual Victimization Among Youth in Custody: Do Risk Factors Vary by Gender and Perpetrator?, 'The Prison Journal' (100, 2) pp. 151-172. Copyright © 2019. DOI: 10.1177/0032885519894561. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.