A New Study on campus rape and the one in five number

[dstark]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/1-in-5-college-study-raped_n_7293068.html

[dstark]

The study, published online Wednesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health, surveyed 480 female freshmen at a university in upstate New York in 2010. The results confirm other research that has found about 20 percent of women are victimized by sexual assault in college. A Centers for Disease Control report last year showed 19.3 percent of women are victims of rape or attempted rape during their lifetimes.

An accompanying editorial in the journal says the research shows “rape is a common experience among college-aged women.” The researcher, Kate Carey, professor of behavioral and social sciences in the Brown University School of Public Health, wrote that if a similar number of young people were breaking their legs in their first year of school, “we would expect that the community would do something to enhance the safety of the environment.”

[dstark]

Colleges and universities have moved in recent years to gauge the prevalence of sexual violence on campuses. The survey results show variation, depending on how the questions are posed.

Princeton University: One-in-six women said in a survey they had been sexually assaulted.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 17 percent of women and 5 percent of men in a survey said they’d experienced sexual assault.
University of Oregon: 10 percent of women had been raped, and 35 percent had at least one forcible sexual encounter.
Occidental College: Nearly 8 percent of students said they’d been sexually assaulted.
Kansas State University: Less than 1 percent said in a survey they’d experienced unwanted sexual contact at the school.
University of Kansas: More than 1-in-10 had experienced sexual harassment or assault at the school.

[skyoverme]

actually, the more shocking finding is in the very first sentence:

Nearly one in five college women were victims of rape or attempted rape during their freshmen year , with the most falling prey during their first three months on campus,

That is absolutely horrible.

[scholarme]

So I’m paying $$$ to send my D to a place where she has a one in 5 chance of getting assaulted?
That sounds … wait, how do they define sexual assault in this article?

[dstark]

That is what happened to a friend of mine’s daughter.

A planned and carried out rape.

[Cardinal_Fang]

Here’s the press release from Brown:
http://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/05/rape

Beginning in the fall when they arrived on campus and continuing through the following summer, 18.6 percent of freshmen women surveyed at a university in upstate New York in 2010 endured at least one completed or attempted rape, according to a new study that is the is the first to examine the risk of sexual attack on first-year women in detail.

This is not wishy washy “sexual assaults” that include a peck on the lips. This is one in five freshmen women saying they were the victim of a rape or attempted rape during their freshman year.

This is worse, way worse, than other studies we’ve seen.

[Cardinal_Fang]

The article is behind a paywall but this is from the abstract:

Methods
Female students (N = 483) completed a health questionnaire (1) on arrival on campus; (2) at the end of the fall semester; (3) at the end of the spring semester; and (4) at the end of the summer following their first year of college.

Results
Before entering college, 18% reported IR incapacitated rape, and 15% reported FR forcible rape. During the first year of college, 15% reported IR (attempted or completed) and 9% reported FR (attempted or completed). By the start of the second year (lifetime prevalence), 26% and 22% had experienced IR and FR (attempted or completed), respectively.

[dstark]

The study defined rape as “vaginal, oral, or anal penetration using threats of violence or use of physical force, or using the tactic of victim incapacitation.” Thus, the study data do not conflate other forms of sexual misconduct such as unwanted touching or verbal abuse with the incidence of rape.

Although the issue has attained greater public attention lately, she said, it has remained inadequately addressed.

“If you swap in any other physically harmful and psychologically harmful event, a prevalence of 15 percent would be just unacceptably high,” Carey said. “If, for instance, 15 percent of our young people were breaking their legs in their first year of school, we would expect that the community would do something to enhance the safety of the environment.”

[scholarme]

That is horrible. Specially as it seems few of the rapes were reported to the cops. That is going on the agenda of the talk with D before school starts - any crime committed, specially rape / attempted rape, call the actual cops ( not campus security). You may save the next girl.

[dstark]

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/what-new-survey-can-tell-about-rape.html

[dstark]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2015/0506/Glimmers-of-progress-in-fight-against-college-sex-assault-video

[soccerguy315]

if these stats were anywhere close to true, then we should probably be asking why females are attending these rape factories and why parents are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year so their daughters will get raped?

[Cardinal_Fang]

Or, we could be asking why so many males are turning their colleges into rape factories, and why the college administrations are allowing their colleges to be rape factories.

[bluebayou]

Results
Before entering college, 18% reported IR incapacitated rape, and 15% reported FR forcible rape. During the first year of college, 15% reported IR (attempted or completed) and 9% reported FR (attempted or completed).

So the rate in college is lower than before college? (Am I understanding correctly at this late hour?)

By the start of the second year (lifetime prevalence), 26% and 22% had experienced IR and FR (attempted or completed), respectively.

Do the authors explain what is going on between the “first year of college 15% reported…” and “by start of second year…26%…” Does that include summer back home?

[MidwestDad3]

Among other things it is a public health crisis, and it has been too long ignored.

Soccerguy, even 1 in 10, 1 in 100, or 1 in 1,000 would be too many. I really don’t care if the statistics turn out to be off. It is a horrible problem that adversely affects one gender disproportionately. And when there is finally a will among administrators to address it proactively and seriously, campuses will become more safe for women.

[scholarme]

Or, we could be asking why so many males are turning their colleges into rape factories

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Without police reports, we don’t know if its a large number of males committing a few rapes or a small number of males committing many rapes. My guess would be the latter would be more likely simply because sex predators typically prey on more than one victim.

[Cardinal_Fang]

So the rate in college is lower than before college? (Am I understanding correctly at this late hour?)

15% reported forcible rape in the four years before college, and 9% reported forcible rape in their freshman year. So the rate is higher in college.

Do the authors explain what is going on between the “first year of college 15% reported…” and “by start of second year…26%…” Does that include summer back home?

It does include the summer back home, but the 15% is the number who said they’d experienced attempted or completed incapacitated rape during their freshman year, and the 26% is the number who said they’d experienced incapacitated rape at some time in their life between age 14 and the beginning of sophomore year.

The total who say they have experienced an incomplete or completed rape (either forcible or incapacitated) by the beginning of sophomore year is 37%!!!

Note the definition of rape used in the study: “vaginal, oral, or anal penetration using threats of violence or use of physical force, or using the tactic of victim incapacitation.” In other words, rape. Real rape. Not some kind of rape-ish thing, but rape.

[jonri]

Do remember though that this includes ATTEMPTED rapes.

[skyoverme]

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