The Prison Rape Elimination Act and Correctional Psychiatrists.
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Rape and sexual assault are violent crimes that exact severe and lasting emotional and functional tolls. Our society is currently grappling with the pervasiveness of sexual assault in our communities and the development of both preventive interventions and post hoc approaches to effective legal redress. Unlike those that occur in community settings, sexual assaults in jails and prisons have long been seen as a consequence of incarceration that society is willing to ignore and tacitly accept. That attitude is no longer prevalent. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA, Public Law 108-79), signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2003, states:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
دوره 44 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016