A US Government study today shows that 3 percent of college women experience a completed or attempted rape during a college year.
According to the study conducted by Bonnie S. Fisher, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, 1.7 percent of female students were victims of a attempted rape, while another 1.7 percent were coerced to have sex.
The study was based of 4446 women who attend a two or four year college with at least 1000 students and filed into a report titled "The Sexual Victimization of College Women".
It includes that 13 percent of college women have been stalked, mostly during the night hours in there living quarters, and 60 percent of the campus rapes happened at the victims residence. The other 40 percent came from other living quarters and fraternity gatherings, the study shows.
" Most victims knew the person who was sexually victimizing them", the author wrote, backing up the nearly 90 percent claim that the victim new the offenders. The boyfriend or Ex, classmate,friend, or co-worker were the general suspects of most rape cases.
Fisher's study adds that a college with 10000 female students could experience 350 rapes a year. In many cases, Fisher argues that some female students don't come forward with sexual assault cases, because of fear of embarrassment or a unclear understanding of the definition of rape.
The study comes with a growing number of criminal activity happening on college campus's, with higher risk of assault to women then in other parts of society in a comparable age group.
Percentage Breakdown of Statistics as Follows:
1.7- Victims of a attempted rape
1.7-coerced in having sex
13-women stalked since beginning of the year
60-women raped in residence
31-women raped in living quarters
10-women raped at a fraternity
For More Information: Use these following websites
http://www.rainn.org/
http://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_NCWSV466
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf
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