Prevalence of Campus Rape

2020 ◽  
pp. 379-405
Author(s):  
Uta M. Stelson ◽  
Theresa Neimann
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Clery Act ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Norms Theory

Most administrators of colleges and universities are aware of the statistics about the prevalence of campus sexual assault and rape. Campus sexual assault and rape have the potential for ruining the lives of both victims and perpetrators. The authors suggest that educators, administrators, and strategic leadership teams need to understand how social norms theory, sports, and rape culture play into the prevalence of campus sexual assault and rape on students' ability to thrive in and complete college and the need to adopt a proactive stance whereby they can help to offset the negative outcomes for the students involved while at the same time focusing on the legal and risk management impact of neglecting to establish and/or non-enforcement of policies to both prevent and address campus sexual assault and rape. Many educators and administrators fail to understand the potential costs of Title IX violations and benefits to colleges and universities from the violence against women laws, especially the Amended Clery Act. Lastly, recommendations are forthcoming in helping leaders and risk management employees be proactive and strategically plan to reduce and address the occurrences of campus sexual assault and rapes.

Prevalence of Campus Rape

2017 ◽  
pp. 1427-1449
Author(s):  
Theresa D. Neimann ◽  
Uta M. Stelson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Clery Act ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Norms Theory

Most educators are aware of the statistics about the prevalence of campus sexual assault and rape. While the focus is usually on remedies many educators fail to see the connection between psychological ramifications, grade deflation and college non-completion as some of the possible outcomes. The authors suggest that educators, administrators and strategic leadership need to understand how Social Norms Theory, sports, and rape culture play into the prevalence of campus sexual assault and rape on students' ability to thrive in college and complete and the need to adopt a proactive stance whereby they can help to offset the gloomy statistics in campus sexual assault and rape. This chapter will also focus on the legal and risk management impact of neglecting to establish and/or non-enforcement of policies to both prevent and address campus sexual assault and rape. Many educators and administrators fail to understand the potential costs of Title IX Violations and benefits to colleges and universities from the Violence Against Women laws, especially the Amended Clery Act. Lastly, recommendations are forthcoming in helping leaders and risk management employees be proactive and strategically plan to reduce the occurrences of campus sexual assault and rapes.

Engaging collaborative communities: dialogue and campus sexual assault

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Madden
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Administrative Position ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Proactive Communication ◽  
University Officials ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose While universities continue to grow increasingly sophisticated in their communication functions, issues like sexual assault continue to pose a challenge. One reason is that these issues are emotional, complex, and often only dealt with at the point that they have become a crisis for the institution. The purpose of this paper is to understand the role that dialogue can play in proactively communicating about issues of sexual assault. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized 32 in-depth interviews with university officials from 21 different universities across the USA with responsibility for communicating about issues of sexual assault, including Title IX officers, victims advocate services, student affairs, and university communications. Findings Issues managers worked to create opportunities for dialogue on their campus communities by highlighting shared values. Within a dialogic framework, university issues managers were creating spaces for dialogue and developing alternative forms of engagement in an effort to empower students with the necessary skills to engage in dialogue with their peers. There was a recognition that dialogue is most effective when it is peer-to-peer vs coming from an authoritative or administrative position. Issues managers helped students to develop the skills necessary for engaging in dialogue with each other. Originality/value To advance public relations scholarship, there is a need to consider emotional and gendered issues that are often stigmatized. This can help practitioners to develop better, and proactive, communication strategies for handling issues of sexual assault as to avoid negative media attention and work to change organizational culture.

Legal and Political Responses to Campus Sexual Assault

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-333
Author(s):  
Michele Landis Dauber ◽  
Meghan O. Warner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Justice System ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civil Justice System ◽  
Enforcement Activity ◽  
Do So

Despite a long history of reform efforts, college students remain vulnerable to sexual harassment and assault on campus. This article surveys that history from the 1970s to the present, including a flurry of enforcement activity under President Obama and a backlash and reversed course under Trump. Many of the systems—for example law, education, and public health—designed to ameliorate the epidemic of campus sexual assault have failed to do so. These failures have been particularly pronounced for victims who experience multiple intersecting inequalities. The resulting frustration with legal remedies through campus Title IX processes and the criminal and civil justice system has spurred a new interest in strategies to prevent sexual assault in the first place. Recent political developments, including the #MeToo movement, suggest a potential for democratic political accountability to make progress where legal reform efforts and campus prevention programming have thus far been unsuccessful.

The Title IX Movement Against Campus Sexual Harassment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Feminist Organizing ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Remarkable Progress

Beginning in 2009, hundreds of thousands of students and their allies began to mobilize against campus sexual assault, organizing around the groundbreaking civil rights statute, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and achieving remarkable progress in advancing gender equality in only about a decade. Moving from the Title IX movement’s genesis during the Obama administration to the movement’s direct-action protests and litigation challenging regulations issued in May 2020 by then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, this chapter tells the story of how Title IX and the student movement interacted from 2009 to 2020. During these years, the movement not only weathered backlash but also influenced later feminist movements such as #MeToo and nonfeminists’ understanding of sexual harassment, demonstrating the continued power and promise of both feminist law and feminist organizing.

scholarly journals Symbolism Over Substance: The Role of Adversarial Cross-Examination in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudications and the Legality of the Proposed Rulemaking on Title IX

2020 ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Hunter Davis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Institutional Costs ◽  
Reporting Rates

Traditionally, it has been understood that campus sexual assault adjudications need not take on the formalities of the justice system. Since the consequences faced in campus adjudications are considerably less than punishments faced in the justice system, less process is owed under the Due Process Clause. However, in September 2018, the Sixth Circuit reconceived what constitutes due process in campus sexual assault adjudications in the case of Doe v. Baum. The court found that in cases involving conflicting narratives at public universities, the accused or his agent must have the ability to cross-examine his accuser in the presence of a neutral factfinder. On November 29, 2018, the Department of Education took Baum several steps further in a proposed rulemaking on Title IX, mandating cross-examination in all campus sexual assault cases at both public and private universities. In this Comment, I argue that the proposed rulemaking on Title IX goes too far, misinterpreting the case law and the dictates of due process, while neglecting empirical evidence and foreseen adverse consequences. I argue that the proposed rulemaking misinterprets case law—most notably the recent Baum decision— by failing to appreciate important limits to the scope of compulsory cross-examination. I also unpack the vast negative implications of the proposed rulemaking, including drops in reporting rates and considerable institutional costs. As a result of these legal shortcomings and practical implications, I argue that the proposed rulemaking fails to pass the Mathews balancing test. As universities, the federal government, and courts determine how best to adjudicate campus sexual assault allegations, all efforts must be taken to minimize trauma to the victim, safeguard the rights of the accused, and protect the financial viability of educational institutions.

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