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In this way, the ultimate responsibility falls upon the leadership of the individual prison as a means of ensuring the prison rape is reported, minimized, and sought to be eliminated. As a function of performing this study, the authors noted that one of the shortcomings that prior research had failed to address was the role that prison wardens played in the reduction of incidence of prison rape; as such the need for the study itself to be undertaken was necessitated (Moster & Jeglic 2009). Unfortunately, the study found that there was little difference between the incidence and reporting levels of prison rape both pre and post PREA.

This lack of change with regards to the level of prison rape that was measured and reported upon was surmised by the researchers to be fundamentally linked to the funding levels that prisons received. As a function of the limited sources of funding, prisons and prison wardens by extension have traditionally sought out other more important issues to be tackled. However, the issue of prison rape, as the authors argue, is perhaps the most important issue besides rehabilitation that any given prison or prison system can or should deal with.

Due to the fact that prison rape is not only psychologically traumatic but the fact that it spreads diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, and a litany of others, the health and institution integrity of the system as a whole is put in jeopardy by such an oversight (Jenesse & Smith 2011). With regards to the key information that has been studied thus far this semester with relation to the above topic, it is the belief of this author that the relationship that the ultimate shareholder, the prison warden, bears with relation to this issue is the one that most closely corresponds to the models that have thus far been introduced.

Whereas other situations have a level of supervision and joint shareholder interest with regards to the criminal justice system, recidivism, and/or other aspects of law, order, and punishment, this is an issue that ultimately relies upon the ability of this primal shareholder, to affect a net change in the exhibition of prison rape that occurs under his/her watch. This is not to say that there are not other responsible shareholders within such a process; rather this merely serves to highlight the fact that with regards to seeking to ameliorate the problem, the responsibility can ultimately be traced to the steps that the primal shareholder has taken in order to reduce the incidence of prison rape which occurs within his/her prison system.

Povitsky, W. (2006). Helpful or Harmful? The Effect of Teen Court on Recidivism. Conference Papers -- American Society Of Criminology, 1-2. Article 2: Likewise, the second article which this brief analysis will seek to summarize and review is that of Povitsky’s 2006 work entitled, “Helpful or Harmful? The Effect of Teen Court on Recidivism”. As with many authors who are concerned with the issue of recidivism within the criminal justice system, the author in question seeks to define the way in which the teen court either helps to reduce, increase, or ultimately has little if any affect