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Facts About Sexual Assault
In 2005, more than a third (36%) of all sexual assault occurred at or in a victim's home. (1)
Of female sexual assault victims, 73% were assaulted by someone they knew. (2)
Ninety-two percent of rape or sexual assault victims in 2005 were female. (3)
In 2005, 38.3% of all rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement. (4)
Of the women who knew the offender, 38% were friends or acquaintances of the rapist and 28% were intimate partners. (5)
Girls age 16-19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. (6)
Victims of sexual assault are:
3 times more likely to suffer from depression
6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders
14 times more likely to abuse alcohol
26 more times likely to abuse drugs
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide (7)
One out of every six American women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape) (8)
About 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. (9)
80% of sexual assault victims are under the age of 30. (10)
It is estimated that every two minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. (11)
Marital
rape is illegal!
In the 2003-2004 school year, 13% of all public schools experienced one or more serious violent crimes such as rape or sexual assault. (12)
61% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 6% of rapists serve a day in jail. (13)
43% of rapes occur between 6:00 pm and midnight. (14)
A victim of sexual assault has a legal right to have an advocate present during an interview with law enforcement. (15)
The SARP Center volunteers provided over 7,550 hours of service in 2007.
The SARP
Center has been serving San
Luis Obispo County
for 31 years!
74 people received individual and/or group counseling from the SARP Center in 2007.
436 people received crisis intervention services from the SARP Center in 2007.
5,287 children received sexual assault prevention and education presentations from the SARP Center in 2007.
1) Shannan M. Catalano, "Criminal Victimization, 2005," (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005), 9, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv05.pdf, (accessed March 3, 2008).
2) Ibid., 3
3) Ibid., 9
4) Ibid., 10
5) Ibid., 3
6) Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims (accessed March 11, 2008).
7) Ibid., 1
8) Ibid., 2
9)
10) Ibid., 3
11) U.S. Department of Justice. 2006 National Crime Victimization Survey. 2006
12) National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics, " Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006," (Washington, DC: US Department of Education and Justice, 2006), Table 2, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/tables.asp, (accessed March 11, 2008)
13) Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates (accessed March 11, 2008).
14) Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-offenders (accessed March 11, 2008).
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