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| National Data on Sexual Violence - Adult Victims |
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- 1.3 Adult women are raped every minute (National Victim Center and Crime Victim Research and Treatment Center, 1992)
- In 84% of these cases, the attacker knows the victim. This is known as acquaintance rape. 41% of sexual assaults occur in the victim’s home (National Victim Center, 1992; U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1991).
- The U.S. has the highest rate of sexual assault per capita of any industrialized country. (1990 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee)
- American women are 8 times more likely to be raped than European women and 26 more likely than Japanese women (Senate Judiciary Committee Report on Sexual Assault, 1991).
- Between 1995 and 1996, more that 670,00 women were victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault (U.S Department of Justice, National Crime Victimization Survey, 1997)
- In 1996, only 31% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials ~ less than one in every three rapes that occurred (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996)
- There were an average of 51,000 Rapes and sexual assaults occurring in the workplace each year from 1992 through 1996 (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Workplace Violence Victimization Survey)
- From a sample of sorority, 24% had experienced an attempted rape, 17% were victims of a completed rape. Almost half of these rapes and attempted rapes were perpetrated in a fraternity house. (Copenhaver, Grauerholz, Sex role, vol. 24, nos. 1,2, 1991.)
- 75% of female rape victim require medical care after the attack (U.S. Department of justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994)
- In 47% of rapes, the victim sustained injuries in addition to injuries commonly associated with sexual assault (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994)
- Victims of rape are 13.4 times more likely to develop two or more alcohol related problems and 26 times more likely to have two or more serious drug abuse-related problems (Kilpatrick, Dean and Aciemo. Mental Health Needs of Crime Victims: Epidemiology and Outcomes." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2003,:1612)
- 81% of female inpatients diagnosed with mental illness have been victims of sexual abuse and/or physical abuse at some point in their lives
(Jacobson, physical and Sexual Assault Histories Among Psychiatric Outpatients, 1989)
- Women with disabilities are at greater risk of abuse, particularly those in institutional settings, than women in the general population
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Women, Abuse, and Mental Health: Shaping a National Agenda, 1993)
- As many as 76% of adults diagnosed with cognitive impairment are also victims/survivors of sexual violence (Centers for Disease Control, National Center for injury Prevention and Control, 1996).
- Sexual assault had a serious impact an all victims as it is a violent act over which they had no control and were often in fear for their lives (1992 National Victim Center)
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