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["Hotvedt, Carmen" <>]

Hi all:

 

Does anyone know of research off the top of their heads that studies the prevalence of sexual assault in residence halls pre and post co-ed/multi-gender housing offerings?  As in, are there studies that indicate that allowing people of multiple genders to live on the same floors increases perpetration/victimization?

 

I’m responding to a question from a parent about this, and would love to have some peer-reviewed data to back up our assertion that there is no definitive causal factor, and that the move to co-ed/multi-gender housing options has happened over the past 40 years on many campuses.  The victimization data we have from 40 years ago is kind of like an elephants-to-apples comparison to the data we have now. 

 

But, if folks have studied this or published on this, please share!  Now I’m curious!

 

cj

Carmen Juniper Neimeko Hotvedt
Manager, Violence Prevention and Victim Advocacy
University Health Services
UW-Madison

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