Articles > Reference > News Wires, White Papers, and Books > US Fed News Service, Including US State News news wires > January-March 2007 > Monday, March 12

Article: 18 PERCENT OF YOUNG WOMEN EXPERIENCE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION

Article from:
US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Article date:
March 12, 2007
Copyright

The University at Buffalo issued the following press release:

Sexual victimization can mean several things - verbal coercion to have sex with an intimate partner, rape by a stranger, a woman fondled in a bar or forced intercourse when a woman is too intoxicated to consent or object.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions report that 18 percent of young women recruited into a study experienced sexual victimization in a two-year period. Victimization was defined as unwanted sexual contact, verbally coerced sex, rape or attempted rape. Among this group, the majority (approximately 66 percent) stated that their victimization was perpetrated by an intimate ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Every fifth young woman falls prey to sexual ...
The Hindustan Times;  March 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... contribute to sexual victimization by both intimate partners and non ... to reduce sexual victimization by non-intimate partners should be ... to prevent sexual victimization from intimate partners and might ...

Article: Intimate Sexual Victimization Among Women With ...
Violence and Victims;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... using three groups: no sexual victimization (n = 368), sexual ... that women with no sexual victimization had significantly fewer ... abuse; sexual assault Sexual victimization of women by intimate partners affects a large number ...

Article: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION: A ...
Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION: A Handbook ... important realms of sexual victimization in the US, namely ... at the hands of intimate partners and seventy per ... rounded view on sexual victimization. (*.) Department ...

Article: A Longitudinal Examination of the Consequences of Sexual ...
The Journal of Sex Research;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Sexual victimization is a pervasive problem for women ... as it is widely believed that sexual victimization has implications for how a woman ... although some studies have examined sexual victimization longitudinally, most have not ...

Article: 3.2 Percent Of Inmates Report Sexual Victimization ...
M2 Presswire;  June 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 3.2 Percent Of Inmates Report Sexual Victimization In Local Jails(C)1994-2008 ... reported one or more incidents of sexual victimization in a survey mandated by the Prison ... admission to the jail, if more recent. Sexual victimization is defined as all types of sexual ...

Antecedents of Sexual Victimization: Factors Discriminating ...
Journal of American College Health;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Abstract. A sexual victimization survey was used to assess ... coercion, victimization Sexual victimization is a complex societal problem ... College men also experience sexual victimization, but our focus in this article ...

Article: 3.2 Percent of Inmates Report Sexual Victimization ...
U.S. Newswire;  June 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... reported one or more incidents of sexual victimization in a survey mandated by the Prison ... admission to the jail, if more recent. Sexual victimization is defined as all types of sexual ... Eighteen jail facilities had an overall sexual victimization rate of at least twice the ...

Article: Differences in psychological health and family dysfunction by ...
The Journal of Sex Research;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... According to the Federal Criminal Code, sexual victimization exists along a continuum that includes ... further reveal that the rate of sexual victimization is higher among youth as compared ... 1996). Closer inspection of sexual victimization data from national surveys indicates ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives