College Student Rape Research

For a long period of time women between the ages of 18 and 24 had the highest rate of rape and sexual assault victimization. Within that age range many of the victims have been identified as college students. In the vast majority of sexual assaults experienced by university women, the perpetrator and victim know each other in some way. According to the National Survey of College Women, 93% of sexual assault victims reported that they knew the perpetrator such as a classmate, friend, boyfriend or ex-boyfriend, or acquaintance (Ullman, Karabatsos, & Koss, 1999). Most of the student rapes or sexual assault incidents occurred while the victim was pursuing leisure activities such as a date, party, or hanging out in the college dorms. Among the student