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Martini, Mara; De Piccoli, Norma – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Interventions addressing the endemic of sexual violence at European universities are scarce, particularly those that take a bystander focus to sexual violence prevention and involve university staff. Evidence-based data on their effectiveness are also lacking. This article reports the description of a pilot evaluation study of the USVreact Italian…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Prevention, College Environment
Matthew Tozzi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Sexual assault among college students is a prevalent occurrence. Researchers found sexual assault on college campuses have been present for decades. Six percent of males have been found to experience a sexual assault during college enrollment while the incidence increases to 19%-26% for females. Studies continue to report sexual assault is a…
Descriptors: Crime, Rape, Sexual Abuse, College Students
Smith-Khan, Laura – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article explores public debates about credibility in media discourse regarding a Somali refugee who was raped on Nauru. Given the pseudonym "Abyan", she was living on Nauru as a result of Australian refugee policy and was brought to Australia for medical assistance. Her treatment by the Australian authorities became the subject of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credibility, News Media, News Reporting
Lindsay, William R.; Steptoe, Lesley R.; Haut, Fabian; Miller, Sandra; Macer, Jane; McVicker, Ronnie – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: The Armidilo has two scales--the risk scale and the protective scale. Research has been confined to the risk scale which appears to predict future incidents with medium to large effect sizes. There have been no publications on the use of the protective scale. Methods: The Armidilo was completed on four individuals with IDD who were…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Crime, Rape
Thomas Leroy Fritz – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This phenomenologically grounded qualitative study examined the lived experience of a student sexual violence advocate. Student advocates are utilized to operate crisis lines on college campuses for survivors of sexual assault, domestic abuse or other forms of sexual violence. This dissertation argues the lived experience of student sexual…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Advocacy, Rape, Sexual Abuse
Fleckman, Julia; Brown, Komal; Lederer, Alyssa; Stoltman, Sarah; Craft, Timothy – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Sexual violence (SV) prevalence remains high among U.S. college campuses; prevention strategies may benefit from addressing socially oppressive beliefs, including racism, sexism, and heterosexism that all directly link to attitudes and beliefs related to SV. Aims: The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential efficacy of a…
Descriptors: Rape, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Racism
Karunaratne, Nadeeka – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2023
To resist hegemonic campus sexual violence research trends rooted in postpositivist paradigms, I advocate for the centering of healing in research, particularly in the research methodologies that scholars employ. In this article, I invite researchers to (re)consider the purpose of research as a process that actively prioritizes and promotes…
Descriptors: College Students, Rape, Crime, Sexual Abuse
Samaha Ghani – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The beginning of college campus life is one of the most exciting phases of student life. However, for some students, it might pose a threat in the form of sexual violence. In the United States, sexual violence is highly pervasive, placing college students at a greater risk of victimization. Currently, there is a lack of data on sexual crimes…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Rape, Violence
Corene de Wet – Perspectives in Education, 2024
This qualitative media study, undertaken within an interpretative research paradigm, aims to expand our knowledge of sexual violence perpetrated against learners in South African public and private schools. Due to ethical, normative and methodological barriers surrounding research on sexual violence in schools, South African English language…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, School Safety, Foreign Countries
Valanzola, Ashley – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2021
Teaching about sexual violence in the past is likely to solicit emotional reactions from students, including the potential for them to share their own personal histories related to the topic. According to statistics compiled by the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN, 2020a), university students are a particularly vulnerable population;…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Rape, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Lee, Boyung – Religious Education, 2021
The cognitive, emotional, physical, gendered, sexual, and spiritual dimensions of human nature and experience are inseparable and intricate parts of every education anchored in religion. Incorporating her own learning journey stories, particularly her failure experiences, the author invites religious educators to delve into critical dialogues and…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Sexuality
Pae, Keun-Joo Christine – Religious Education, 2021
Critically reflecting on a "pedagogy of tenderness", this essay delineates how to build a liberative community of learning in the undergraduate classroom of sexual ethics. The learning community aims to help students understand religion's complex roles in shaping sexual ethics in society, challenge heteropatriarchal sexual ethics through…
Descriptors: Ethics, Sexuality, Sex Education, Religious Education
Grimmett, Marc A.; Rowley, Alishea; Williams, Regina Gavin; Clark, Cory – Professional School Counseling, 2021
The education of Black male high school students is presently occurring in the context of the #MeToo movement. Recent reports of inappropriate sexual conduct by high profile men, including Black men, have generated heightened awareness, confusion, anxiety, and ambivalence among Black males regarding what behavior is acceptable toward girls and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, High School Students, Sexual Abuse
How College and University Women Navigate Fear of Sexual Assault on Campus: A Phenomenological Study
Robert Babcock – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Institutions of higher education are not safe for women-identified students regarding gender-based violence, specifically sexual assault. The existence of a rape culture, with societal norms that ignore, allow, or implicitly encourage sexual violence to be perpetrated by men against women, is alive and well on today's college campuses. Exact…
Descriptors: Rape, Sexuality, Critical Theory, Phenomenology
Moylan, Carrie A.; Hatfield, Courtney; Randall, Jenna – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: Despite popularity of climate surveys as a tool produce accurate data on campus sexual assault, little is known about how campuses are administering these surveys, what they are assessing, and what they are finding. Participants: A sample of 105 campus climate survey reports was located with an internet search during the 2015-2016…
Descriptors: Rape, College Students, Campuses, Student Attitudes