Sexual misconduct remains at crisis levels on American college campuses and is vastly underreported. Most research focuses on individual level risks of assault and perpetration, yet campuses vary significantly in sexual offenses and reporting rates. The current study responds to calls to consider institutional factors that shape campus climates…

Campus security and safety is an important feature of postsecondary education. The Department of Education is committed to assisting schools in providing students nationwide a safe environment in which to learn and to keep students, parents and employees well informed about campus security. These goals were advanced by the Crime Awareness and…

Our nation's schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not only affects the individuals involved, but also may disrupt the educational process and affect bystanders, the school itself, and the surrounding community (Brookmeyer, Fanti, and Henrich 2006;…

The U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention has developed this annotated bibliography to provide those interested in prevention at colleges and universities--and in surrounding communities--with a ready reference of current, important, and available information resources.…

Male college students viewed neutral, sexual-violent, and violent-sexual film vignettes and chose vignette to show to female confederate. Among highly sexually aggressive men (n=25), 24% showed sexual-violent vignette and 28% showed violent-sexual vignette. Among sexually nonaggressive men (n=13), none showed sexual-violent vignette and only one…

Examined fraternity membership and sexual aggression. Findings from male undergraduates (83 fraternity members and 178 independents) revealed that fraternity members were significantly more likely than independents to engage in nonphysical coercion and to use drugs and alcohol as sexual strategy but did not differ significantly in their use of…

Two studies examined the hypothesis that sexually coercive behavior is part of a larger constellation of non-sexual deviant behaviors. The first study considered the relationship between various antisocial intentions and self-reported levels of sexual aggression. As a part of a larger study, college men (N=108) responded to the Sexual Experiences…

Assessed the incidence of and the risk factors for date rape and other male-against-female sexual aggression (SA) in dating situations. Showed 77.6% of the women and 57.3% of the men had been involved in SA, 14.7% and 7.1% respectively in unwanted sexual intercourse. Risk factors and implications for rape-prevention programs are discussed.…

Examined college students' (N=408) attitudes and behaviors regarding sexual coercion and assault. Found approximately 60% of participants believed that dating partners provoked sexually aggressive behavior by refusing sexual requests. Confirmed that verbal exchanges between dating partners are prone to disbelief and misinterpretation. Presents…

Koss and Dinero's (1987) comprehensive developmental model of sexual aggression asserts that sexual assault is in part a result of early sexual experiences and family violence; that sexually aggressive behaviors may be predicted by such "releaser" variables as current sexual behavior, alcohol use, and peer group support; and that use of aggression…

Indicate that male college students viewing five R-rated movies depicting violence against women came to have fewer negative emotional reactions to the movies, to perceive them as significantly less violent, and to consider them significantly less degrading to women. (PD)

Examines correlations between psychopathic traits and forms of self-reported sexual aggression in college men (N=378), as well as the relationship between sexual aggression and components of psychopathy. Results indicate that measures of both dimensions of psychopathy, identified in previous research, accounted for variance in self-reports of…

Results from 54 college men who heard misogynous or neutral rap music and then selected neutral, sexual-violent, or assaultive film vignettes to show a female companion suggest that misogynous music facilitates sexually aggressive behavior and support a relationship between cognitive distortions concerning women and sexual aggression. (SLD)

Discusses the week-long White Ribbon Campaign at Mary Washington College, which attempts to educate and involve men in antiviolence efforts. Participants and supporters wear a white ribbon which serves as a public statement against men's gender-based violence. (FC)

Heterosexual couples (n=45) completed measures of background and sexual information and responded to six scenarios describing dating situations. Found that, although men in general would comply with date's resistance to unwanted sexual advances, substantial percentage of men would use coercion to continue advances after women refused. Compliance…