The Negative Impact Of Sexual Assault On College Campuses

Sexual assault has proliferated across college campuses, and remains one of the most underreported violent type crimes in the country. The lifestyle college brings of staying up late, drinking, partying, going out to the bars and fraternizing with young men expose women to a higher risk of encountering unwanted sexual conduct. Statistics show that as many as one in every five females to attend college will experience some type of sexual assault in their academic career. Typically the only sexual assault cases at colleges that make the news are the ones involving student athletes. This is a very small number of all sexual assault cases and is unrepresentative of the magnitude of the problem. This problem needs to be better addressed by all universities to encourage victims to come forward and report these crimes. …show more content…
These crimes include attacks or attempted attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between victim and offender. Sexual assaults may or may not involve force and include such things as grabbing or fondling. Sexual assault also includes verbal threats.” Rape is also a sexual assault but is defined differently as “Forced sexual intercourse including both psychological coercion as well as physical force. Forced sexual intercourse means vaginal, anal or oral penetration by the offender (s). This category also includes incidents where the penetration is from a foreign object such as a bottle. Includes attempted rapes, male as well as female victims, and both heterosexual and homosexual rape. Attempted rape includes verbal threats of rape” ("Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)",