Sexual Violence Reported in Juvenile Corrections
August 5, 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has published the report “Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities 2005-06.”
The report presents data from the 2005 and 2006 Survey on Sexual Violence, an administrative records collection of incidents of youth-on-youth and staff-on-youth sexual violence reported to juvenile correctional authorities. This annual report is mandated by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.
Resources:
To access this report or order the hardcopy version, visit http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/svrjca0506.htm.
For additional information, see the BJS press release at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/svrjca0506pr.htm.
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