By Andrea Ritchie
A recent study shows that about 3 percent of college women have experienced a completed rape or attempted rape during a college year.
The U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics released their report, "The Sexual Victimizationof College Women", today showing these statistics of female students:
- 1.7 percent were victims of attmepted rape.
- 1.7 percent reported being coerced to have sex.
- 13 percent of the sexual victimization occured after 6 pm.
- 31 percent occurred on campus in living quaters.
- 10 percent occurred at a fraternity.
The study was federally funded and conducted by Bonnie S. Fisher, who is a professor at the University of Cincinnati, and Francis T. Cullen and Michael G. Turner.
The NCWSV study explained that, "Most victims knew the person who sexually victimized them.Most often, a boyfriend, ex-boyfriend, classmate, friend acquaintance, or coworker sexually victimized the women." College professors were cites as a low percentage of offenders in this case, and were not seen to commit rapes or coercions.
The study also showed that out of 10,000 females an estimated 350 rapes would occur per year.
Fisher found that many women do not characterize their sexual victimizations as a crime for a number of reasons:
- Embarrassment
- They do not clearly understand the legal definition of rape.
- They do not want to define someone as a rapist.
- They blame themselves for their sexual assault.
This study was based on a telephone survey of a randomly selected and nationally sampled 4,446 women attending a 2-4 year college or university.
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