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The State of Campus  Bystander Intervention Efforts 

Thursday, June  21st, 2007 

1:00pm to 3:00pm  Eastern Time 

Presented by:   

Brett A. Sokolow, J.D.   
David Lisak,  Ph.D. 
Victoria Banyard,  Ph.D. 

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WHAT IS BYSTANDER  INTERVENTION? 
If we accept the premise offered by  researchers such as David Lisak and Toni 
Abbey that a significant number of  those who perpetrate sexual violence are 
repeat offenders (40-60%) of multiple  acts of violence, we also have to 
accept that these individuals are likely to be  sociopaths and/or predators.  
Prevention efforts on college campuses have historically involved  education 
aimed 
at those who might perpetrate, but these interventions are not  appropriate 
for repeat sex offenders.  We need educational efforts to reach those 40% to 
60% 
of perpetrators who  are one-time offenders, because they may be educable via 
modalities such as  empathy-induction, a better understanding of rules/laws 
or normative  dissonance.  What do we do with the  sex offenders?  The path 
to  
prevention for them is Bystander Intervention.  We look to their peers and 
community and  ask them to identify those whose behaviors are high-risk.  We 
ask 
them not to be bystanders to the  acts of aggression and trespass of the sex 
offenders.  We ask them to intervene.  Many campuses have committed to  
programmatic efforts at empowering bystanders, and some are starting to show  
positive results.   
This webinar examines the state of the  art in campus bystander intervention 
efforts, highlighting the research on  repeat perpetration and the model 
program underway at the University of New Hampshire.   This webinar is 
divided into 
three  parts: 
1)     David Lisak,  a forensic psychologist from the University of 
Massachusetts, Boston will lay the foundation for why  bystander intervention 
efforts 
are necessary. 
2)     Victoria  Banyard, a psychologist from the University of New  Hampshire
 will provided detailed information on the  model program being implemented 
at UNH and how that model can be replicated at  other campuses.   
3)     Brett  Sokolow, a higher education attorney who works with student 
groups on bystander  intervention will discuss the challenges of motivating 
bystanders, the  impediments to bystander engagement, effective techniques 
for 
impelling  bystanders to act, and effective means for intervention.   
THE  TOPICS 
THE NEED FOR BYSTANDER INTERVENTION   
§         Profiling  the one-time offender 
§         Profiling  the repeat offender 
§         How many  times does a repeat offender repeat? 
§         What types  of violence are typical of repeat offenders? 
§         Can we  detect the undetected rapist? 
o       Who can  identify them?  
o       How can they  be stopped? 
EMPOWERING  INTERVENTION 
§         What  students need to know: 
o       Rapists are  extremely adept at identifying “likely” victims, and 
testing prospective  victims’ boundaries; 
o       Rapists plan  and premeditate their attacks, using sophisticated 
strategies to groom their  victims for attack, and to isolate them 
physically;  
§         What do  these strategies look like? 
o       Use  “instrumental” not gratuitous violence; they exhibit strong 
impulse control and  use only as much violence as is needed to terrify and 
coerce 
their victims into  submission;  
o       Use  psychological weapons – power, control, manipulation, and 
threats – backed up by  physical force, and almost never resort to weapons 
such as 
knives or guns;   
o       Use alcohol  deliberately to render victims more vulnerable to 
attack, or completely  unconscious.  
THE UNH MODEL FOR BYSTANDER  INTERVENTION 
§         The  community of responsibility concept 
§         Inclusive  scope 
o       Breaking down the “men as  perpetrators women as victims” dichotomy 
§         Two-pronged  approach: 
o       In-person educational  programs 
o       Outreach public awareness  campaign 
§         Peer-led  efforts 
§         Single-sex  groups 
§         Booster  sessions 
§         Community-specific  scenarios 
§         A  commitment to intervene 
§         Measured efficacy of model  program 
o       Persistence of  effect 
ARE YOU A BYSTANDER OR AN  INTERVENER? 
o       What kind of  bystander? 
o       What kind of  intervener? 
§         Are  interveners ratting our their friends? 
§         Do  interveners need to be preventers? 
HOW DO WE EMPOWER  BYSTANDERS? 
o       What motivates them to  act? 
o       What inhibits them from  acting? 
§         Fear of  reprisal 
§         Fear that they are misjudging  the situation 
§         Fear of  entanglement 
§         Fear of  self-endangerment 
§         Fear that it will be not  effective 
§         Fear that they do not have  allies 
§         Fear of being politically  correct 
§         Failing to recognize the  common roots of all “…isms” 
§         Lack of personal interest or  connection to the behavior 
§         Failure to identify the  behavior as problematic 
o       Seeing it as  normative 
o       Social norms implications for  bystander intervention 
o       How  can we help bystanders to overcome inhibitions 
o       How  do you benefit from intervening? 
o       How  does your community benefit from intervention? 
o       Intervention is an act of  leadership, loyalty and relational living 
o       Intervention as an act of  resistance to peer pressure 
o       Can  we use inspiration and role-modeling to catalyze a culture of  
intervention? 
THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS AND  APPLICATIONS OF INTERVENTION MODELS 
o       Not  just sexual violence 
o       Alcohol and other  Drugs 
o       Intolerance, hate acts and  bias 
o       Other implications for future  directions? 
HOW A WEBINAR  WORKS 
Webinars are cost-effective  because everything you need is already in your 
office -- a telephone and a  computer.  Webinars are large-group  conference 
calls where you can follow along online with our PowerPoint.  You can even 
project the PowerPoint via  an LCD projector for group participation by your 
staff. 
 Each registrant can call in from one  telephone line on campus, so you might 
arrange to use a phone in a conference  room, where your staff and 
administrators can listen and participate via  speakerphone.  You can also 
purchase  
additional lines for multiple campus call-in locations for a moderate  
surcharge. 
 You will receive a  call-in 800 number and a PIN for the day of the event.  
Once you join the call, you will be able  to hear the presenters and ask 
questions via phone, while viewing the Power  Point online. 
INTENDED  PARTICIPANTS:  
 
Ø      Student  Affairs Administrators,  
Ø      Judicial  Administrators, Hearing Officers and Boards 
Ø      University  Counsels and Risk Managers,  
Ø      Residential  Life Administrators, 
Ø      Campus Law  Enforcement 
Ø      Health  Service Staff, 
Ø      Counseling  Staff, 
Ø      AOD  Prevention and Education Specialists 
Ø      Health  Educators, 
Ø      Campus  Sexual Assault Response Coordinators 


PRESENTERS: 
·        Brett. A. Sokolow, J.D.  Brett Sokolow is the President  of NCHERM 
and the author of ten books on student affairs law and policy  topics.  Mr. 
Sokolow serves nine  campuses as outside counsel and is a consultant to 
hundreds 
of others.  He is the Editor of the Report on Campus Safety and Student  
Development and is Legal Issues Editor of the CLHE Student Affairs Law & 
Policy  
Weekly.  He serves on the Board  of Directors of the Council on Law in Higher 
Education (CLHE). He is on the Editorial Advisory Board  of the College and 
University Law Advisor published by the Civic Research Institute.  Mr. 
Sokolow is 
Vice-Chair for Education  of the Directorate Body of ACPA’s Commission on 
Judicial Affairs and Legal  Issues.  He has provided risk  reduction, 
prevention 
and bystander-focused programs on over 1,400 college  campuses.   
·        David  Lisak, Ph.D.  David is an associate professor of  psychology 
at the University of Massachusetts  Boston and director of the Men’s Sexual 
Trauma  Research Project. He conducts and supervises research on the causes 
and  
consequences of interpersonal violence. In particular, he has studied the  
motives and characteristics of "undetected" rapists – men who rape but who 
are  
never prosecuted. He also studies the long term effects of childhood abuse in 
 
adult men, and the relationship between early abuse and the later 
perpetration  of interpersonal violence. His research has been published in 
leading 
journals  in psychology, trauma and violence, and he is the editor of the 
journal,  
Psychology of Men and Masculinity. In addition to his research and  teaching, 
Dr. Lisak is a consultant to judicial and prosecutor education  programs 
across the country, he maintains a private practice specializing in the  
treatment 
of men, and serves as an expert witness in death penalty cases in  which 
child abuse issues are raised. 
·        Victoria  L. Banyard, Ph.D.  Vicki  is an Associate Professor in the 
Department of Psychology at the University of  New Hampshire with 
affiliations in Justice Studies and Women’s Studies  Programs.  She is also 
the  
co-director of Prevention Innovations:  Research and Practices to End 
Violence Against 
Women on Campus, a  research and development unit in the College of Liberal 
Arts.  She received her doctorate in clinical  psychology with a certificate 
in 
Women’s Studies from the University of  Michigan.  She completed a  
postdoctoral research fellowship at the Family Research Lab at UNH and  
postdoctoral 
clinical training at The Trauma Center in Boston.  She conducts research on 
long-term  consequences of trauma and interpersonal violence.  She was the 
principal investigator on an  experimental evaluation of the efficacy of a 
college 
rape prevention program  focused on empowering bystanders.  She has also 
developed a number of new evaluation tools to be used in  understanding the 
role of 
bystanders in violence prevention.

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