Study Challenges Notion That Risk of Sexual Assault Is Greater At College

Submitted by ThomasI on Sat, 2014-12-13 04:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'A study of sexual assault released by the federal government on Thursday challenges conventional wisdom about the heightened danger on college campuses, finding that women there are less likely than nonstudents to be victims. College women are also less likely, the study found, to report the incidents to the police.

The rate of rape and other sexual assault over the past two decades was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents of college age than for students, according to the study, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. It showed an average of 7.6 cases per 1,000 nonstudents, compared with 6.1 per 1,000 college women. For the most recent year, 2013, those rates were almost identical, according to the study, which focuses on women ages 18 to 24.

The incidence of rape and other sexual assault has declined for college students, to 4.4 per 1,000 in 2013 from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1997. The researchers who conducted the study, however, said that the decline was not statistically significant.
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Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, introduced a bill last summer aimed at protecting college women, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. "We should never accept the fact that women are at a greater risk of sexual assault as soon as they step onto a college campus," she said. "But today they are."

"It is simply unacceptable," Ms. Gillibrand added, that colleges "have become havens for rape and sexual assault."

The senator’s office did not return telephone calls on Thursday requesting a comment on the new study. ...'

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Everyone in NY knows how she got her "in" to fill the seat vacated by The Hildebeast who barely set foot in NY except to campaign and fund-raise in the Hamptons and such places. She and H were tight for years and cut from the same misandrist cloth. While KG kept a low profile until the next election for Senate, after winning it (as incumbents nearly always do in the Senate, unfortunately), she revealed her full colors for all to see.

What a nutcase.

She's supposed to be the jr. senator from NY, representing and advocating for the interests of New Yorkers living anywhere but the NYC area, basically. Ask anyone what she's done for that part of NY since being in offc and I'll bet aside from Dem party apparatchniks, you won't find a single New Yorker who can name a single thing she's actually done except obsess abt a "severe problem" that isn't.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-12-14 19:33