NCJ Number
172536
Date Published
1997
Length
240 pages
Annotation
The authors of this book make an important contribution to the field of violence against women by focusing on male peer support for sexual violence.
Abstract
The book highlights the difficulties inherent in researching a topic as sensitive as sexual assault on college campuses and discusses such issues as the best way to word questions for potential or actual sexual assault victims and perpetrators, problems with various sampling strategies, and effects of using different types of statistical analysis techniques. The authors examine theoretical complexities involved in trying to explain sexual assault of women on college campuses and emphasize the multidimensional nature of the sexual assault problem. Book chapters specifically address what constitutes sexual assault, the incidence and prevalence of campus sexual assault, reasons why sexual assault victims are often not taken seriously, male peer support theories of sexual assault, the impact of growing up in a rape-supportive culture, factors associated with male peer support for campus sexual assault, and sexual assault prevention and policy implications. A case history of a 20-year-old junior college student is appended. References, notes, tables, and figures