A healthy, safe correctional culture that prioritizes prevention, reporting, and swift response is the cornerstone of any organized effort to eliminate sexual abuse in confinement. While the individual standards do not set specific requirements for culture change, the adoption and implementation of the standards will assist greatly in developing such a culture by requiring agencies and facilities to institutionalize a set of policies and practices that, among other things, will elevate the importance of agency and facility responsibilities to protect against sexual abuse.
Resources
Other Issues - Culture Change - Resources - General
General
- Diagnosing Agency Culture: Assessing Your Agency’s Internal Culture, Center for Innovative Public Policies (2005).
- The Impact of Institutional Factors on Officially Reported Sexual Assaults in Prisons, Christopher Hensley, Mary Koscheski, and Richard Tewksbury (2003).
- Fighting Prison Rape: How to Make Your Facility Safer, Mary Dallao (1996).
Other Issues - Culture Change - Resources - Adult Prisons and Jails:
Adult Prisons and Jails
- Prison Warden Attitudes Toward Prison Rape and Sexual Assault: Findings Since the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), Aviva N. Moster and Elizabeth L. Jeglic (2009).
- Addressing Sexual Violence in Prisons: A National Snapshot of Approaches and Highlights of Innovative Strategies, Urban Institute (2006).
- The Impact of Institutional Factors on Officially Reported Sexual Assaults in Prisons, Christopher Hensley, Mary Koscheski, and Richard Tewksbury (2003).