U.S. Department of Justice releases scary report

The U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report today discussing the disturbing numbers of young women, who have been sexually assaulted, in American colleges.

The federally funded report was headed up by Bonnie S. Fisher, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, Francis T. Cullen and Michael G. Turner. Their findings showed about 3 percent of college women experienced a completed and/or attempted rape during a college year.

The data also showed that 1.7 percent of female college students were victims of attempted rape. About 1.7 percent of the college reported being coerced to have sex. In the report it estimated that close to 13 percent of women have been stalked since the beginning of the year.

These events commonly occur after 6 pm, 60 percent occur in the victims living quarters, 31 percent occur in other living quarters while 10 percent occur at fraternity houses.

"Most victims knew the person who sexually victimized them," the authors wrote. About 90 percent of completed and attempted rapes were offenders who were known to the victim. Fisher concluded that schools that have 10,000 female students could experience more than 350 rapes each year.

The report has raised a lot of eye brows through out the nation. Mostly this research shows that colleges are not ivory towers and have become hot spots of criminal activity.

Also Fisher found that many women do not characterize their sexual victimization's as a crime for many different reasons. This research also hopes to reinforces the importance of many organizations' efforts to improve education and knowledge about sexual assault.


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http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf
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