Rape And Sexual Assault Victimization

Acquaintance Rape and Date Rape
77% of completed rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim.
Bureau of Justice Statistics. Sex Offenses and Offenders, 1997.

In a study surveying more than 6,000 students at 32 colleges and universities in the U.S 84% of those raped knew their attacker and 57% of the rapes happened on dates.

A survey of women in San Francisco found that 14 % of women who have been married have been raped by their husbands.
Russell, D.E.H. (1990). Rape in Marriage (Rev.Ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Child Victimization
Of the 22.3 million adolescents in the U.S. today, 1.8 million have been victims of serious sexual assault.
Kilpatrick and Saunders, 1997.

Victims of sexual abuse in childhood appear more likely than other teens to become pregnant in adolescence. Childhood abuse has also been linked to unintended pregnancies among adult women. The likelihood that a woman's first pregnancy was unintended increased with both the number of different types of abuse she experienced and the frequency of abuse.
Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women, 2000.

Children who grow up in a family where there is domestic violence are eight (8) times more likely to be sexually molested within that family.
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991.

Male Victims of Sexual Assault
An estimated 92,700 men are forcibly raped each year in the United States.
Tjaden and Thoennes, November 1998.

In a study of male survivors sexually abused as children, over 80% had a history of substance abuse; 50% had suicidal thoughts; 23% had attempted suicide; and almost 70% had received psychological treatment.
Lisak, D., 1994.

Men living with male intimate partners experience more intimate partner violence than do men living with female intimate partners. 15% of men who lived with a man as a couple reported being raped/assaulted or stalked by a male cohabitant.
Saltzman L, Fanslow J, McManon P, Shelley G, 1999.

Persons with Disabilities and Sexual Assault
Among developmentally disabled adults, as many as 83% of the females and 32% of the males are the victims of sexual assault.
Stimson, L. and Best, M.C., "Courage Above All:" Sexual Assault against Women With Disabilities, 1991.

Women with disabilities are raped and abused at a rate at least twice that of the general population of women.
Sobsey, D., 1994. "Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities."

97% to 99% of abusers are known and trusted by the victim who has developmental disabilities.
Balderian, N. 1991. "Sexual Abuse of People with Disabilities.

Elder Abuse and Sexual Assault
In California, there was a 3.1% increase in reported forcible rapes committed against senior citizens.
Office of Attorney General, January 2000.

Of the 293,000 nationwide reports of elder abuse in 1996, there were 8,790 reported incidents of sexual assault.
Toshio and Kuzmeskus, Lisa, 1996.