Lack Of Consent

The lack of consent by the victim of sexual assault on college campuses is another source of the issue. Many times consent isn’t able to be given due to the lack of mental cognition due to being drugged. Unfortunately many people fear that victims will give consent to the offenders at the time of the sexual act and then accuse them the next day due to regret. According to Kelly Oliver in her article “Party Rape, “Nonconsensual Sex”, and Affirmative Consent Policies” (2015),
“It is more likely that women will recant true accusations of sexual assault because they fear retaliation than that women will make false accusations. In other words, there is pressure on women not to report, or to recant accusations truthfully made, but there is no evidence