Inhalt: This report represents the second iteration of a major effort by the Association of American Universities (AAU) to examine the prevalence of, and assess the campus climate regarding, sexual assault and misconduct at colleges and universities. The goal of these surveys is to gather as much information about the issue as possible to help inform member schools as they create policies and strategies to combat sexual assault and misconduct on their campuses. In 2015, AAU and 27 of its member schools designed and implemented a survey on sexual assault, other misconduct, and the campus climate. The resulting study continues to be widely cited in both the popular and scientific literature. In 2018, AAU assembled 33 schools to participate in a similar effort in the spring of 2019 as a follow-up to the 2015 survey. For those who participated in the 2015 AAU survey and others who had implemented the AAU survey on their own, the 2019 survey provided a means to track trends for key types of victimization and climate outcomes.
Schlagwörter:campus; sexual harassment; sexual violence; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; stalking
Quelle: Association of American Universities; Westat; Rockville, 2016. 41 S
Inhalt: Sexual assault and sexual misconduct on university campuses is an important topic that members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) are working to address. In 2015, AAU and Westat worked with a university team of researchers and administrators to design and implement the AAU Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct. Main findings from this study were presented in the Report on the AAU Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (Cantor, Fisher, Chibnall, Townsend, Lee, Bruce & Thomas, 2015).
The current report presents findings from a series of analyses using a subset of respondents from the survey who experienced recurring victimization during the academic year. Recurring victimization refers to experiencing more than one incident of sexual assault or misconduct within the current year. Prior research has found that a certain subset of victims are at greater risk for both repeated experiences of the same type of incident (e.g., repeated sexual assault) and for experiencing multiple types of incidents (e.g., sexual assault and stalking) (Daigle & Fisher, 2013).
Schlagwörter:sexual assault; sexual harassment; sexual misconduct; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; victimization; campus;
CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Inhalt: The report uses information gathered from questions in the detailed incident forms to describe the incident characteristics for each of the four types of nonconsensual sexual contact: penetration by force or threat of force, penetration while incapacitated, sexual touching by force or threat of force and sexual touching while incapacitated.
The incident characteristics for each of these four types of nonconsensual sexual contact are presented for the total sample of victims and broken down by three gender identities (female, male, TGQN) and two types student enrollment (undergraduate, and graduate and professional). This report presents findings from the detailed incident forms in the aggregate school dataset (all 27 schools) to three central questions: 1) What are the characteristics of the offenders of nonconsensual sexual contact? 2) What are the situational characteristics prior to these incidents? 3) What are the outcomes of nonconsensual sexual contact?
Schlagwörter:sexual assault; sexual harassment; sexual misconduct; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; campus
Inhalt: This study is one of the first to provide an empirical assessment of questions such as "How extensive is nonconsensual sexual contact?" and "Who is a victim?" across a wide range of IHEs. Prior studies of campus sexual assault and misconduct have been implemented for a small number of IHEs or for a national sample of students with relatively small samples for any particular IHE. To date, comparisons across surveys have been problematic because of different methodologies and different definitions. The AAU study is one of the first to implement a uniform methodology across multiple IHEs and to produce statistically reliable estimates for each IHE. It was designed to provide separate estimates for incidents involving two types of sexual contact (penetration and sexual touching) and four tactics (physical force, drugs and alcohol, coercion, absence of affirmative consent), as well as behaviors such as sexual harassment, stalking, and intimate partner violence. Providing this level of detail allows campus administrators to tailor policies by these very different types of sexual assault and misconduct.
Schlagwörter:campus; sexual harassment; sexual violence; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; stalking