•At least 80% of all sexual assaults are committed by an acquaintance of the victim. •More than 70% of rape victims knew their attackers, compared to about half of all violent crime victims. •There are 35.3 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 female students on a campus as recorded over a 6.91 month period (the academic year of ‘96 – ’97) as reported in the 2000 DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics report “The Sexual Victimization of College Women.” •On average, at least 50% of college students’ sexual assaults are associated with alcohol. Within the study’s nationally represented sample of college students the results found that 74% of perpetrators and 55% of rape victims had been drinking alcohol prior to the assault. •In a survey of high school students, 56% of girls and 76% of boys [some of whom may be incoming college freshmen] believed forced sex was acceptable under some circumstances. •Previous research suggests that college women are at higher risk for rape and other forms of sexual violence than women in the general population or in a comparable age group (DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 1998). •About 3% of American men, a total of 2.78 million men, have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. (Department of Justice, 2000) |
•Over a five-year stay, a college woman’s risk of experiencing a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault is between one in 5 and one in 4 (Department of Justice, 2000). •Almost 60% of the completed on-campus rapes took place in the victim’s living quarters, 10.3% took place in fraternities (Department of Justice, 2000). •Three out of four rape/sexual assault victimizations involved offenders with whom the victim had a prior relationship (Department of Justice, 1997). •The rate of “false reports” or false allegations of rape is 2 to 3 percent, no different than that for other crimes (Schafran, 1993). •Only 47% of women who had an experience that was classified as a completed rape actually defined their experience as rape (Department of Justice, 2000). •Victims reported being injured in about 1 in 5 completed or attempted rapes (Department of Justice, 2000). •Rape is far more extensive than reported in official statistics, and the large majority of rapists are never apprehended (Carr and VanDeusen, 2004).
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