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Article: 1.7% of college women raped
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2001
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1.7% of college women raped, study suggests
From Journal Sentinel wire reports
Saturday, January 27, 2001
Washington -- The Justice Department estimated Friday that 1.7% of
U.S. college women were raped during the 1996-'97 school year and
another 1.1% were victims of attempted rape.
The report also estimated that 13% 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.
At Congress' request, the department's National Institute of
Justice and its Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted two telephone
surveys of 4,445 and 4,432 women who were enrolled in college at the
start of the fall semester in 1996. The ...