SEXUAL ASSAULT STATISTCS

Statistics from I Never Called It Rape, by Robin Warsaw

1. One in four college women surveyed are victims of rape or attempted rape.
2. 85% of rapes on campus are acquaintance rapes.
3. 42% of college women who are raped tell no one about their assault.
4. The majority of reported victims and offenders are college age, with the rape victimization highest among 16-19 year olds.
5. 90% of acquaintance rapes involve alcohol.
6. The risk of rape is four times higher for women aged 16-24 than for any other age group.

Statistics from www.actabuse.com/sastatistics.html

1. Forcible rapes occur every 1.3 minutes. (National Victim Center and Crime Victim Research and Treatment Center, 1992)
2. Nearly one-third of all rape victims develop rape-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Rape Trauma Syndrome sometime in their lifetimes. (National Victim Center and Crime Victim Research and Treatment Center, 1992)
3. 7% of all American men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.  At least half of these men are exclusively heterosexual. (Federal Bureau of Investigations, 1997)
4. Nearly 6 out of 10 sexual assaults occur at the victim's home or the home of a friend, relative, or neighbor. (Greenfeld, 1997)

Statistics from www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm

1. Women are more likely to be victims of sexual violence than men: 78% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are women and 22% are men (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000).
2. Sexual violence starts very early in life. More than half of all rapes of women (54%) occur before age 18; 22% of these rapes occur before age 12. For men, 75% of all rapes occur before age 18, and 48% occur before age 12 (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000).
3. Prevalence of IPV varies among race. American Indian and Alaskan Native women are significantly more likely (34%) to report being raped than African American women (19%) or White women (18%) (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000).
4. Women in college who use drugs, attend a university with high drinking rates, belong in a sorority, and drank heavily in high school are at greater risk for rape while intoxicated (Mohler-Kuo et al. 2004).