In a survey one in three men at universities said that they would rape if they could get away with it (Dugan, 2013). This speaks to the culture that rape is not a bad thing, getting caught is. A big part of student’s lives is social media. Research indicates that our society’s reliance on social media contributes to a culture “in which everything except rapists is to blame for rape” (Culp-Ressler, 2013). In this culture there is a lot of victim blaming. Sometimes schools discourage students to see themselves as the victims of a crime (Drezner, 2014). This results in lower reporting rates because victims don’t want to be blamed for what happened to them or have anything show up on social …show more content…
More than 90% of sexual assaults on campuses are unreported, according the U.S. Department of Justice (Hoyt, 2013). Research shows that in many instances when a victim reports their sexual assault that, “in notifying college administrators about the incident, they find a lack of concern and a clear desire to protect the university’s reputation” (Hoyt, 2013). This is not the reaction that the victims need from their schools. Schools have an obligation to protect them but if victims don’t trust that they will, the school is not meeting that obligation. So even when victims do report the assault many of them are not met with what they need. Without instances of sexual assault being reported the perpetrators can’t be held accountable and the victims can’t get the support that they are