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Roark, Mary L. – School Counselor, 1992
Describes campus violence found on college campus, including rape, assault, hazing, harassment, and bias-related violence. Offers set of guidelines to assist high school students in assessing campus safety at colleges and universities they may be considering. Discusses high school counselor's role in providing information and perspectives that…
Descriptors: Aggression, College Choice, College Preparation, College Students
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Sisson, V. Shamim; Todd, Sybil R. – NASPA Journal, 1995
Describes policies and procedures for using mediation as one alternative for adjudicating sexual assault cases, and examines factors to consider for implementation. Mediation gives survivors an opportunity to confront accused in a safe environment and to regain a feeling of control in life. Provides recommendations based on experiences at the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, College Programs, College Students, Discipline Policy
Speas, Ralph R.; Thorpe, Claiburne B. – 1979
A brief look at a cross-cultural perspective of the forcible sexual abuse of women by men reveals a wide range of allowed expression. The ethnologists point out the intimate connection between the aggressive and sexual drives in the animal. A significant change has been occurring, with increasing public acceptance that sexual gratification without…
Descriptors: Aggression, Black Attitudes, Black Students, College Students
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Ward, Colleen – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1988
Constructed 25-item Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale (ARVS) which emphasized victim blame, credibility, deservingness, denigration, and trivialization. Results from administration of ARVS to university students, social workers, psychologists, physicians, lawyers, and police officers in Singapore, and to university students in the United States…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Fair Tests
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Brown, William J. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1991
Reports on the effect of AIDS education on college students. Lists reasons for underestimating personal risk: illusions of invulnerability, the long incubation period of AIDS, drugs and sexual experimentation, underestimating partners' risky sexual behaviors, and acquaintance rape. Concludes that increasing knowledge will not necessarily promote…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Students, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
White, Jacquelyn W.; Humphrey, John A. – 1993
While some researchers question whether women can be more vulnerable to sexual assault because of personal characteristics and/or behavioral styles, typical research designs into this question draw on retrospective comparisons of victims and non-victims, making it difficult to determine whether the observed differences are causes, correlates, or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Abuse, College Students, Family Violence
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Willis, Cynthia E.; Wrightsman, Lawrence S. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1995
Rape victims' gaze behavior when identifying a defendant and the prior relationship between victim and defendant were examined for effects on rape culpability attributions. In comparison with victims who used gaze maintenance or natural gaze behavior, rape victims' gaze avoidance was perceived as indicative of less truthfulness rather than…
Descriptors: Aggression, College Students, Crime, Criminals
Korn, Jessica S. – 1995
This study examined freshman college students' attitudes about date rape and how such attitudes changed over the course of their college experience. It is based on a subset of data from the 1990 annual national survey of freshmen and a follow-up study in 1994 collected by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) survey, namely 10,155…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, College Environment, College Freshmen
Minnesota State Office of the Attorney General, St. Paul. – 1996
A survey of 706 randomly sampled students at institutions of postsecondary education in Minnesota examined students' perceptions of violence and safety at their schools. Overall findings indicated that the majority of students had not been victims of violent acts and generally felt safe at their institutions. However, many respondents indicated…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Drug Abuse, Females
On Campus with Women, 1988
Articles and announcements related to women's issues in higher education are provided on a variety of topics, including: affirmative action litigation, campus life, working in academe, traditionally male fields, prizes and awards, women's studies, campus rape, conferences, resources, sexual harassment, minority and disabled women, degrees earned…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, College Students, Court Litigation
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George, William H.; Martinez, Lorraine J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2002
Stereotypes about Black sexuality fostered hypotheses that racial factors and racism influence rape victim blaming. Predominantly White and Asian college students (170 men, 162 women) completed the Modern Racism Scale and evaluated a rape vignette varying victim race, perpetrator race, and rape type. As predicted, racial factors determined victim…
Descriptors: Race, Rape, Stereotypes, Females
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Kahn, Arnold S.; Jackson, Jennifer; Kully, Christine; Badger, Kelly; Halvorsen, Jessica – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2003
Past research had found that one-half or more of all women who have had an experience that might meet the definition of rape do not label themselves rape victims. The present study examined the actual rape experiences of 33 women who labeled their assault experience as rape and 56 women who did not label their assault experience as rape through…
Descriptors: Rape, Females, Emotional Response, Sexual Abuse
DeWitt, Robert C. – 1989
Pennsylvania State University Beaver Campus developed crisis guidelines and a formal working relationship with a local community mental health center in order to be able to deal with on-campus crises and their followup. The guidelines provide each employee with a single, easy-to-follow document that outlines the decision making process to be…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, College Students, Counseling, Crisis Intervention
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Steinberg, Terry Nicole – Journal of College and University Law, 1991
This article first, analyzes the growing problem of campus rape; second, evaluates some college rape reduction programs; third, uses case law to demonstrate that rape should be considered sex discrimination under Title IX; and, fourth, suggests an amendment to Title IX, defining rape as sex discrimination. Appropriate implementation measures by…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, College Environment, College Role
Ensminger, David – 1991
This training manual, intended for use by college students to learn peer counseling techniques, contains four sections. The first section provides an introduction to peer counseling. Effective therapeutic communication, solving a problem, basic counseling techniques, communicating styles, and the limitations of peer counseling are discussed. The…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Counseling Techniques, Dating (Social)
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