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

["Chris Kilmartin (ckilmart)" <>]

I have been asked by a colleague at another institution if I am aware of research on a particular subject and I said I would open it up to this list to solicit your responses.  She is looking for research that supports the theory that, people identify what happened to them as sexual assault (and/or sexual harassment) where they might not have before, resulting in more incidences identified anonymously or officially reported, because their institution or other environment/community has increased their education and awareness of sexual assault and harassment. 

 

In other words, a person might participate in an education or awareness event and think to themselves for perhaps the first time that what happened to them was actually sexual assault or harassment.

Moreover, this person might also feel more convinced that the institution is supportive of survivors and might make an official report where they might not have without the programming.

 

Put more simply: is there evidence that educational programming results in an increase in reporting that should not be interpreted as an increase in violence?

 

Would any of you be able to offer citations that I could pass on to her?  Thanks.

 

 

Christopher Kilmartin, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

University of Mary Washington

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