Colleges should train their faculty and staff to enhance their handle on sexual assault. The school and the local law enforcement should be in sync with one another when a student reports that an assault has happened on their campus where they are living or attending school.
Sexual assault on college campuses has been an elevating problem for several years. Due to the growing issue of sexual attacks Because on college campuses, in the year of 1972 congress had created the Title IX of the Education Amendments Act which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that are receiving federal financial aid according to the chronology written by Barbra Mantel. After this was passed four years later a rape occurred at the University of California, Berkeley …show more content…
Many people have different opinions on how colleges manage the allegations, threats and assaults. Are colleges managing the growing problem successfully with safety and prevention training with the help of the authorities. What efforts are being made to prevent future assaults? “The core problem is that campuses are not really equipped to be adjudicating these cases in the first place, and they’re being asked to do something that’s well outside of their competence,” says Joseph Cohn (Mantel 2). Colleges should be educated and trained like local law enforcement, so in the event of a reported assault the proper measures are taken to assure a conviction and future prevention of assaults on campus. “Only about 12 percent of rapes among college women are reported to law enforcement” (Mantel 3). Brandt-Young says in Barbra Mantel’s article that “People need to understand the dynamics of sexual assault and the dynamics of forensic interviewing, so that they don’t re-traumatize the victim while they investigate.” faculty and staff on college campuses are usually not sensitive to the victims trauma. At times their vigorously interrogating techniques and pressuring may cause the victim to shut down. Through such extreme lack of sensitivity and training the investigation may draw inconclusive, this is why it should be left to the trained professionals to head an assault investigation. In the article written by Jed Rubenfeld on the first page states that in 2007 the department of justice found that about one in ten undergraduate women had been raped at their college. No one should be raped or violated, especially in their home which most times are university campuses. They should be safe to learn, succeed and excel in a safe environment. She also states that only five percent or less of the victims report the assault to the police. This could be out of
Sexual assault on college campuses has been an elevating problem for several years. Due to the growing issue of sexual attacks Because on college campuses, in the year of 1972 congress had created the Title IX of the Education Amendments Act which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that are receiving federal financial aid according to the chronology written by Barbra Mantel. After this was passed four years later a rape occurred at the University of California, Berkeley …show more content…
Many people have different opinions on how colleges manage the allegations, threats and assaults. Are colleges managing the growing problem successfully with safety and prevention training with the help of the authorities. What efforts are being made to prevent future assaults? “The core problem is that campuses are not really equipped to be adjudicating these cases in the first place, and they’re being asked to do something that’s well outside of their competence,” says Joseph Cohn (Mantel 2). Colleges should be educated and trained like local law enforcement, so in the event of a reported assault the proper measures are taken to assure a conviction and future prevention of assaults on campus. “Only about 12 percent of rapes among college women are reported to law enforcement” (Mantel 3). Brandt-Young says in Barbra Mantel’s article that “People need to understand the dynamics of sexual assault and the dynamics of forensic interviewing, so that they don’t re-traumatize the victim while they investigate.” faculty and staff on college campuses are usually not sensitive to the victims trauma. At times their vigorously interrogating techniques and pressuring may cause the victim to shut down. Through such extreme lack of sensitivity and training the investigation may draw inconclusive, this is why it should be left to the trained professionals to head an assault investigation. In the article written by Jed Rubenfeld on the first page states that in 2007 the department of justice found that about one in ten undergraduate women had been raped at their college. No one should be raped or violated, especially in their home which most times are university campuses. They should be safe to learn, succeed and excel in a safe environment. She also states that only five percent or less of the victims report the assault to the police. This could be out of