Three percent Female Students Sexual Assault Victims, Study Shows
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Study that about 3 percent of college women experience a completed and/or an attempted rape during a college year. Attention to sexual victimization of college women has been promted by the fear that college campuses have become hot spots for criminal activity.
Rising Rape Rate of Female College Students Revealed in U.S. Department’s New Study
An alarming rate of three percent of female college students are the victims of an attempted and/or completed rape during a college school year. Nine out of 10 percent knew their attackers; boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, classmates, friend acquaintances, or coworkers were the most common.
The study also revealed some of the patterns of sexual assualts that occur on college campuses. The majority of sexual assualts occur after 6 p.m. while in living quarters. Thirty-one percent of completed rapes occur in other living quarters (not the victim’s), while 10 percent occur at Fraternity’s. Even most of the off-campus assaults happen in some sort of living quarters.
The study was conducted by Bonnie S. Fisher, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, Francis T. Cullen, and Michael G. Turner. Along with sexual assaults, the study also found that 1.7 percent of college women are coerced into having sex, as well as 13 percent of women being stalked since the beginning of the school year.
The results from this study were found through a telephone survery of 4,446 randomly selected women who were attending a two or four year college or university. The study only interviewed students who attend schools with atleast 1,000 students. The victimization rate of 35.3 per 1,000 women is a disturbing thought to college administrators.
Researchers have shown that college campuses and their students are not free from risk of criminal victimization. These women are at a greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population.
This study reinforces the importance of many organizations' efforts to improve education and knowledge about sexual assault.
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