Tystnadens väggar. Oviljan att erkänna och diskutera sexuella övergrepp på män i USA:s fängelser
(2009)Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- In 2008 USA was the one country that had the most people behind bars, both in numbers and
percentage, 2,3 million people. Of all the male convicts that were being held in custody around
the country's different detention facilities, thousands of them were being exposed to sexual
abuse, such as rape. This essay will try to understand why there hasn?t been a bigger public outcry
in the American community concerning this. It does so by studying the view of rape as a crime of
gender, by examining religion in USA and the Christian view on homosexuality, looking into the
publics thoughts on prisons and the penalty's purpose plus studying theory's of the publics view
on the prisoner. The conclusion propose that different ideas and... (More) - In 2008 USA was the one country that had the most people behind bars, both in numbers and
percentage, 2,3 million people. Of all the male convicts that were being held in custody around
the country's different detention facilities, thousands of them were being exposed to sexual
abuse, such as rape. This essay will try to understand why there hasn?t been a bigger public outcry
in the American community concerning this. It does so by studying the view of rape as a crime of
gender, by examining religion in USA and the Christian view on homosexuality, looking into the
publics thoughts on prisons and the penalty's purpose plus studying theory's of the publics view
on the prisoner. The conclusion propose that different ideas and prejudices that occur in the
American society regarding the above topics creates some type of ?walls of silence?/ reluctance
to the problem, which accite to the continuation of the exposed prisoners. (Less)
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- author
- Sjunnesson, Petra
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2009
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- USA, Fängelsevården, Sexuella övergrepp, Male prisoner, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper, Human rights, Mänskliga rättigheter
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1315639
- date added to LUP
- 2009-01-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:49
@misc{1315639,
abstract = {{In 2008 USA was the one country that had the most people behind bars, both in numbers and
percentage, 2,3 million people. Of all the male convicts that were being held in custody around
the country's different detention facilities, thousands of them were being exposed to sexual
abuse, such as rape. This essay will try to understand why there hasn?t been a bigger public outcry
in the American community concerning this. It does so by studying the view of rape as a crime of
gender, by examining religion in USA and the Christian view on homosexuality, looking into the
publics thoughts on prisons and the penalty's purpose plus studying theory's of the publics view
on the prisoner. The conclusion propose that different ideas and prejudices that occur in the
American society regarding the above topics creates some type of ?walls of silence?/ reluctance
to the problem, which accite to the continuation of the exposed prisoners.}},
author = {{Sjunnesson, Petra}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Tystnadens väggar. Oviljan att erkänna och diskutera sexuella övergrepp på män i USA:s fängelser}},
year = {{2009}},
}