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- COPS Problem-Specific Guide, No#17: Acquaintance Rape of College Students
UPDATED JULY 2006. The U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Community Oriented Policing Services developed this guide regarding acquaintance rape among college students. It is informative and a good source of college-specific statistics.
(http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=269) - The Sexual Victimization of College Women
RELEASED DECEMBER 2000. This report was sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, and Bureau of Justice Statistics. It examined sexual violence among college students. The sample included students from 40 institutions of higher education (both two and four-year schools). This study is heavily reference in the COPS Problem-Specific Guide, No#17: Acquaintance Rape of College Students.
(http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf ) - Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Rape Victimization: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey
RELEASED JANUARY 2006. More than 300,000 women and almost 93,000 men are raped annually, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS). Researchers found differences in rape prevalence relating to age, gender, and race/ethnicity, as well as other factors such as whether victims were first raped as minors. Despite widespread public education, rape remains a largely underreported crime; and despite increased levels of research over the past few decades, significant gaps remain in understanding rape victimization. This NIJ Special Report takes a detailed look at the NVAWS findings and the researchers' recommendations for future research.
(http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/210346.pdf) - Sexual Assault on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Are Doing About It
RELEASED DECEMBER 2005. Sexual assault on the Nation's college campuses has been receiving more attention lately. Schools are not the safe havens they once appeared to me; college women are at higher risk for sexual assault than their non-college bound peers. Congress has enacted several laws requiring schools to disclose their security procedures, report crime data, and ensure victims' rights. In 1999, it asked the National Institute of Justice to study school compliance with Federal law. The resulting research report provides a comprehensive benchmark of sexual assault policy on the Nation's campuses. This research for Practice presents key findings from the report.
(http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/205521.pdf) - Rape in Utah Report By CCJJ
The Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ), in conjunction with the Office of Crime Victim Reparations, developed and administered a survey of Utah women about their experience with sexual violence.
(http://www.justice.utah.gov/Research/SexOffender/RapeInUtah.pdf) - "Partner Violence Against Women with Disabilities: Prevalence, Risk, and Explanations" [Douglas A. Brownridge, Violence Against Women, 12 (2006): 805-822]
Using a representative sample of 7,027 Canadian women living in a marital or common-law union, this investigation examined the risk for partner violence against women with disabilities relative to women without disabilities. Women with disabilities had 40% greater odds of violence in the 5 years preceding the interview, and these women appeared to be at particular risk for severe violence. An explanatory framework was tested that organized variables based on relationship factors, victim-related characteristics, and perpetrator-related characteristics. Results showed that perpetrator-related characteristics alone accounted for the elevated risk of partner violence against women with disabilities. Stakeholders must recognize the problem of partner violence against women with disabilities, and efforts to address patriarchal domination and male sexual proprietariness appear crucial to reducing their risk of partner violence.
(http://vaw.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/12/9/805) - "Physical and Sexual Assault of Women with Disabilities" [Sandra Martin, et al., Violence Against Women, 12 (2006): 823-837.]
North Carolina women were surveyed to examine whether women's disability status was associated with their risk of being assaulted within the past year. Women's violence experiences were classified into three groups: no violence, physical assault only (without sexual assault), and sexual assault (with or without physical assault). Multivariable analysis revealed that women with disabilities were not significantly more likely than women without disabilities to have experienced physical assault alone within the past year (odds ratio [OR] = 1.18, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] = 0.62 to 2.27); however, women with disabilities had more than 4 times the odds of experiencing sexual assault in the past year compared to women without disabilities (OR = 4.89, 95% CI = 2.21 to 10.83).
(http://vaw.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/12/9/823)