Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Molly Dragiewicz <>]

Hi All,

I finally have a moment to share the results of my long ago request for 
red-zone materials.

I never did uncover a direct citation for published statistics showing 
increased risk of sexual assault in the first weeks of the semester.

I did find several other interesting resources that I would like to share.

 1. NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund produces an excellent 10 minute 
video called The Undetected Rapist that is a re-enactment of a segment of 
an interview by Dr. David Lisak with a college student (fraternity member) 
who committed rape but was never punished or reported. The 
"interviewee"describes how he selects a "target", flatters her throughout 
the week, invites her to an exclusive party, gets her drunk as quickly as 
possible, and then takes her to a room set aside by the fraternity for this 
purpose.  He describes how she told him to stop and it irritated him and 
how he held her down when she was not cooperative.  The students we have 
heard from who watched it said it is very powerful and that they know guys 
like that (who do that). We showed the video to every freshman this year as 
part of orientation activities.

2. The Sexual Victimization of College Women by Bonnie Fisher, Francis 
Cullen, and Michael Turner is an NIJ/BJS study that appears to refute the 
early semester risk claims. Like all studies, check out the methods section 
to understand what was asked, to whom and how. This was useful to me 
because it discussed some trends and patterns the study uncovered. Best of 
all it is online for free. 
<http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf>http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf 


3. Acquaintance Rape of College Students 
<http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf>http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf 
by Rana Saampson is a DOJ/COPS study that makes a claim about early 
semester risk, citing the claim to Benson, D., C. Charton and F. 
Goodheart.  Acquaintance Rape on Campus: A Literature Review.Journal of 
American College Health 40: 157-165.  I have not yet received the copy of 
this article that I requested, so I don't know what that says.

4. Bibliography of research on undetected (college) rapists. David Lisak 
sent this to me (Thanks David!). It is available at 
<http://www.cavnet2.org/>www.cavnet2.org via search by title, author, or 
document number 3375. It is really  interesting as most of the articles are 
campus relevant.  The articles can provide some insight that may help us 
design prevention programs.

I hope these are useful to you!

Best,

Molly Dragiewicz
Director
Women's Resource Center
Bucknell University

(570) 577 1375