Hello everyone,

I'm finishing an article about sexuality and Jewish Holocaust  
survivors in which I discuss the sexual abuse of concentration camps  
inmates. Most reported cases were of men abusing boys, although there  
a some reported instances of women abusing girls. The sexual  
segregation of prisoners within the concentration camps meant that  
encounters between males and females were few.

Most of the abusers/rapists were privileged heterosexual prisoners who  
targeted same-sex victims. It has occurred to me that there may be  
parallels to prison rape in terms of motivations of the perpetrators  
as well as the consequences for the victims.

I am new to this area of study, and would appreciate suggestions for  
where to look for the most current/respected research on prison rape.

Thank you!
Margarete

Margarete Myers Feinstein
Research Scholar
UCLA Center for the Study of Women