Sexual Assault As Normal?

Here's a story from the Huffington Post about perceptions that young women have about Sexual Assaults. It raises one potential answer to why so many sexual assault crimes-nearly 250,000 a year ago-go unreported 60% of the time. The answer is many women do not see themselves as victims. A sociologist at Marquette University analyzed interviews with 100 girls between the ages of...

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Colleges Get Poor Grades On Campus Assaults

Here's a story from the Huffington Post on the pitiful grades that most colleges got when judged on Campus Assaults. This may be young college students first encounter with the bureaucracy. To combat the red tape and lack of transparency, student activists have called on their peers, allied faculty members, the federal government, and organizations like SAFER to speak out in support...

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Costs Of Domestic Violence

This is an article that talks about Domestic Violence and the effects it has not only on the individual but on the cost to society as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), domestic violence costs society billions of dollars every year with employers losing $13 billion a year due to absences and lost productivity. The CDC also estimates victims...

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Teen Dating Abuse Study Findings

This is a story about Teen Dating Abuse the subject of a meeting of the American Psychological Association. Among other things presented at the meeting was this statistic; more than a third of teen guys and girls say they've been physically, emotionally or sexually abused in their dating relationships, according to new, unpublished data from a nationwide survey. They want to teach...

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Sexual Assaults On Campus-Most Involve Drugs Or Alcohol

Here's a story about campus Sexual Assaults where US representative Pat Meehan R-Delaware, convened regional experts on campus safety last month to discuss the issue and come up with policy recommendations on how to narrow the gap between the number of actually assaulted women and the number who choose to report it. Nearly 20 percent of women attending college are sexually assaulted...

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Female Assaults On College Campuses

Here is another story about Assaults On Women specifically in Missouri where U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill has led a national push to scrutinize rape and sexual assaults of women on college campuses. "There are young women that are victimized every day, every hour, at a college campus somewhere," McCaskill told the News-Leader on Thursday. "Too often young women second-guess themselves. 'I should...

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Teen Relationship Violence

This is a story about how Teen Dating Violence is a growing concern all over the country. As many as one in three young women have reported they have been in a relationship where they have been injured or hurt in some way. But because of their inexperience and lack of knowledge officials say the worst part is that many teens do...

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