The Impact of Drugs on the Sexual Behavior of African American Male Inmates

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然非洲裔美国男性只占美国人口的7%；他们目前占监狱人口的50%。少数发表的关于监狱性行为的研究表明，非裔美国男性在监狱中参与高风险性行为的比例过高。很少有机构定期报告有关其设施内所有性行为的信息，而且几乎对药物滥用及其与囚犯在这种环境中参与性行为的关系一无所知。拟议的研究旨在通过检查监狱中非裔美国男性性行为的性质，以及监禁前和监狱内滥用药物的程度来解决先前研究中的空白。我们还将探讨药物滥用在多大程度上调解（或解释）与监狱中压迫性生活条件相关的广泛囚犯特征（剥夺因素）与入狱前存在的囚犯特征（输入因素）之间的关系，这些特征被认为与监狱中的性行为不端有关。一份经过验证的匿名和保密的自我报告问卷将被发放给被关押在美国东北部最大的男性监狱中的128名非裔美国男性囚犯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Though African American males comprise only seven percent of the United States (U.S.) population; they currently represent 50 percent of the prison population. The few published studies conducted on prison sexual behavior suggest that African American males are disproportionately involved in high-risk sexual behavior in prison. Very few institutions routinely report information regarding the full range of sexual behavior in their facilities, and virtually nothing is known about drug abuse and its relationship to inmates' involvement in sexual behavior in this environment. The proposed research study seeks to address gaps in prior research by examining the nature of sexual behavior among African American males in prisons, and the extent to which drug abuse prior to incarceration and within prison is associated with it. We will also explore the extent to which drug abuse mediates (or explains) the relationship between a broad range of prisoner characteristics related to oppressive living conditions in prison (deprivation factors) and prisoner characteristics that were present before entry into prison (importation factors) thought to be associated with sexual misconduct in prisons. A validated anonymous and confidential self-report questionnaire will be administered to 128 incarcerated African American males housed within one of the United States' largest maximum-security male correctional institutions, located in the northeast.