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

[Juliette Grimmett <>]

Hey all -

We have been using these stats and wondered if anyone has any updated ones that you would suggest that are either more recent or even better...Thank you!

Survivors

·         Rape is the most common violent crime on American college campuses today (Sampson, 2002).

·         Approximately 350 of every 10,000 (3.5%) female students on a college campus will be raped each academic year (Fisher, 2000).  This extrapolates to over 526 rapes or attempted rapes at NCSU each academic year (Fall, 2011).

·         One in every four women will be a survivor of rape or attempted rape by the time they graduate from college (Warshaw, 1994).

·         A university study found that of those identifying as lesbian, gay, and bisexual students 42.4% (30.6% female and 11.8% male) and 21.4% of the heterosexual-identifying as lesbian, gay, and bisexual students (17.8% female and 3.6% male) indicated they had been forced to have sex against their will (Duncan, 1990)

·         Nearly 60% of completed rapes that occur on a college campus take place in a survivor’s residence, 31% in other on-campus living quarters, and 10.3% in a fraternity (house). (Fisher, 2000).

 

College Men:

·         In one study, 1 in 12 (8%) college-aged men admitted to acts that met the legal definitions of rape (Warshaw, 1994).

·         35% of college men indicated some likelihood that they would force a woman to engage in sexual activity if they could be assured of not getting caught (Parrot, 1991).

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Juliette Grimmett
Assistant Director, NC State Women's Center
Interpersonal Violence Services
Office for Institutional Equity & Diversity
324 Harrelson Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695
(919) 515-2012

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