Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center

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These statistics were taken from the Department of Justice in 2000:

• Over a five-year stay, a college woman’s risk of experiencing a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault is between 1 and 5 and 1 and 4 (Department of Justice, 2000).
• Almost 60% of the completed on-campus rapes took place in the victim’s living quarters, 10.3% took place in fraternities (Department of Justice, 2000).

The following statistics were taken from the 2006 National Violence Against Women Survey from the Department of Justice:

• Nationally, 17.6% of surveyed women and 3% of surveyed men were raped at some point in their lifetime.
• 29.4% of female victims and 16.6% of male victims were 18 to 24 years old when they were first raped.
• Rape prevalence statistics by race/ethnicity illustrate no statistically significant differences between minority and non-minority women—19% of minority women and 17.9% of non-minority women reported a rape at some point in their lifetime.
• Among convicted rapists, 99 in 100 are male and 6 in 10 are white (Department of Justice, 1997).