Why Are Some Female Correctional Officers Having Sexual Encounters With Male Inmates?
Crime in America.Net A reader asks why female prison staff members are over-represented as to sexually victimizing male inmates (see report below–69 percent of victimized male inmate’s claim sexual encounters with female staff). Please note that the percentages are rather small; an estimated 2.9 percent of male prisoners and 2.1 percent of male jail inmates reported at least one incident with staff, compared to 2.1 percent of female prisoners and 1.5 percent of female jail inmates. She points out that this is the only violent crime category she can think of where the majority of perpetrators are female, and she’s correct. This is nature’s equivalent of the three-headed rabbit; it’s so rare as to astound. Females rarely rank high for any crime so to see female perpetrators dominate any violent crime category; it begs the question “why”? We spoke to a variety of colleagues with current and past correctional experience, and while their explanations make us uncomfortable, here is what they
