People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society. However, while in prison, they often get victimised themselves. Research has demonstrated that prisons tend to be unsafe environments where various forms of victimisation take place. These forms of victimisation often go unnoticed and usually do not attract much interest from policymakers or society at large: prisone...
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1 The safety paradox and beyond: why we should study inter-prisoner victimisation.- 2 Who’s who? Individual characteristics of those involved in sexual assaults in ...
About the author
Tom Daems is Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Elien Goossens is Ph D Researcher at the Leuven Institute of Cri...