An Empirical Examination of Sexual Assault (original) (raw)

This report was made possible by CDCR personnel, a team of social science researchers, and hundreds of inmates in California prisons who agreed to be interviewed. Each of these stakeholders deserves acknowledgment and appreciation for their valuable contributions to the research reported in this document. This research would not have been possible without the cooperation and assistance of key administrative personnel in the CDCR. In particular, we would like to thank Sandi Menefee and Sharon English for writing a preliminary proposal that served as the precursor to the proposal that ultimately secured funding from the CDCR for this project; Jeanne Woodford, former Director, Undersecretary, and Secretary of the CDCR for inviting this research and assuring its viability in the early stages; Associate Director Wendy Still for-from beginning to end-ensuring unfettered access to California prisons and inmates, encouraging wardens at prisons from which data were collected to cooperate with our efforts to collect data, authorizing and facilitating the acquisition of CDCR data, and generally providing a level of institutional support that is virtually unheard of in prison research; Bubpha Chen, former