SEO: DOJ report of victimization on campuses

Summary Blurb: The U.S. Department of Justice released a report today looking into the prevalence and nature of sexual assault occurring on college campuses. Sexual Victimization on campus DOJ reports new statistics for college women By:Samantha Dean The U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report today looking into the prevalence and nature of sexual assault and rape occurring on college campuses. The Department of Justice compiled the report, The Sexual Victimization of College Women, from a federally funded study conducted by Bonnie S. Fisher, a professor at the University of Cincinnati. What is Sexual Victimization? The term sexual victimization is not exclusive to the act of rape; however, rape is a type of sexual victimization. Any sort of sexual assault, such as unwanted touching, is sexual victimization.

According to the report:

3% college women
experience a completed and/or attempted rape during a college year

1.7%

of female college

students were victims of attempted rape.

According to the 1.7% of the college report, the vast majority of women reported being sexual victimization incidents coerced to have sex. occurred after 6 p.m. on campus. Most off-campus victimization also occurred in residences. However, particularly for sexual contacts and threatened victimizations, incidents also took place in bars, dance clubs, nightclubs and work settings. Most of the sexually assaulted women knew the person who victimized them.

Unreported and unresolved Rapes Rape in college is far too common and too close to home. According to the report, rape occurs: 60% on campus in the victim's residence 31% in other living quarters on campus 10% at a fraternity

Fisher also found that many women do not characterize their sexual victimizations as a crime for a number of reasons, including: Embarrassment Not clearly understanding the legal definition of rape Not wanting to define someone they know who victimized them as a rapist. Self blame for the assault

Sexual Victimization at University of Maryland The universitys Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program (SARPP) organizes the Clothesline Project biannually to raise awareness of rape and victimization on campus. This project displays handmade T-shirts from Student looks at the Clothesline women who speak about Project in Hornbake Plaza. Photo courtesy of Melissa Mark. their experiences, http://www.jclass.umd.edu sometimes in a graphic manor. Some shirts name a rapist, others promote healing and strength after an attack.

Sexual victimization is a community-wide problem. Education is key for prevention. For more information about the Clothesline Project and other SARPP activities is available at facebook.com/ UMDSARPP. A full copy of Fishers report is available at the National Institute of Justice Web site at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nijl. Additional criminal justice materials can be obtained from the Office of Justice home page at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.

Students often fail to report assaults on campus. For more information check the video by Norman Carter, a UMD student. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1jFv1a

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