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Article: Government reports many college women victims of rape, stalking
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 27, 2001
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WASHINGTON - About 1.7 percent of U.S. college women were raped
during the 1996-97 school year and an additional 1.1 percent were
victims of attempted rape, according to a Justice Department study
that suggested the government is underestimating the number of rapes
in America. The report also estimated that 13 percent of college
women had been stalked at school that year - a much higher figure
than an earlier private study had found among women of all ages.
The federally funded researchers concluded that women face a
higher risk of stalking on campuses because they have close contact
with a wide variety of men there.
At Congress' request, the department's National Institute of
Justice and ...