Sexual Violence In Particular Settings

Campus Sexual Violence
According to a study surveying more than 6,000 students at 32 colleges and universities in the U.S.:

• 1 in 4 women had been victims of rape or attempted rape
• 84% of those raped knew their attacker
• 57% of the rapes happened on dates
• Only 27% of the women whose sexual assault met the legal definition of rape thought of themselves as rape victims
• 42% of the rape victims told no one about the assault
• 5% reported it to the police
• About 75% of the men and at least 55% of the women involved in acquaintance rapes had been drinking or taking drugs just before the attack
• 38% of the women who had been raped were 14, 15, or 16 years old at the time of the assault

Women between the ages of 16 and 24 were three times more likely to be raped than women in other age groups.
Harlow, C.W. (1991). Female victims of violent crimes. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

22% of all rape victims are between the usual college ages of 18-24.
Kilpatrick et al., 1992.

Abuse by Professionals
In California, there were disciplinary actions against 2,309 doctors, including 57 for sexual abuse of or sexual misconduct with a patient.
20,125 Questionable Doctors. 2000 Edition.

According to a survey reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 10% of psychiatrists admitted to having sexual relations with their patients. In a July 1997 report, published by the Public Citizen Health Research Group, 28% of psychiatrists were disciplined for sex-related offenses, which is a figure far higher than any of the other medical specialty groups.
Should Convicted Psychiatrists and Psychologists Be Listed As Sexual Predators? PR Newswire, 9/14/97.

The number of all doctors disciplined for sexual misconduct doubled from 1990 to 1994. Of the total disciplinary actions taken against doctors, 5.1% were for sexual abuse of patients or other sexual misconduct.
Physicians Disciplined for Sex-Related Offenses, 1996. Public Citizen Health Research Group.

The office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church estimates that there are about 50 clergy sexual misconduct cases every year.
Smith, Alexa. "When Mentor Becomes Molester," Presbyterian Today, October 2000.

Jason Berry's book, Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, investigates child molestation in the North America Clergy and the impact of those behaviors on the larger community of believers. Mr. Berry tells his readers that estimating church losses involves guesswork, but the figures he found are conservative by all standards. His findings include:

Between 1983 and 1987, more than two hundred priests or religious brothers were reported to the Vatican Embassy for sexually abusing youngsters, in most cases teenage boys -- an average of nearly one accusation a week in those four years alone.

In the decade of 1982 to 1992, approximately four hundred priests were reported to the church or civil authorities for molesting youths. The mast majority of these men had multiple victims.

By 1992, the church's financial losses - in victims' settlements, legal expenses, and medical treatment of clergy had reached an estimated $400 million.
Compilation of Statistics by California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA).