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Article: Sexual assault on campuses: trends and prevention.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
- Author:
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Abstract
This paper describes a study in which campus victim advocates addressed trends in sexual assault on campus and strategies to prevent sexual violence on campus. Results suggest that technological and structural changes have influenced the kinds of violence occurring on college campuses. Prevention strategies include building awareness about sexual violence.
Introduction
Early estimates on sexual assault against college students suggested that one in four women on college campuses are victims of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault (Koss, Gidycz, and Wisniewski, 1987). Perpetrators tended to be known acquaintances, with one in ...