Can reducing women's drinking prevent rape?
A new article “Alcohol consumption and women’s vulnerability to sexual victimization: can reducing women’s drinking prevent rape?” in the journal Substance Use and Misuse addresses the thorny issue of...
View ArticleRisk Recognition and Intimate Partner Violence
I was reading the new study Risk Recognition and Intimate Partner Violence thinking about the concept of “risk recognition” – that is ability to detect danger. And I have questions. Are these...
View ArticleWhat is the role of parents to prevent sexual victimization?
Typically when I think of sexual violence prevention efforts for college students I think of school based education and attempts to shift the college culture. I typically do not consider the role of...
View ArticleEvolution and rape avoidance: a good combination?
Why do women want to avoid rape? Is it because sexual assault is a violation that causes emotional and physical harm? In a recent study ePublished in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, McKibbin et. al....
View ArticleStop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped
Zerlina Maxwell writes in her recent article Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped in Ebony Magazine that Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long...
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It doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s still victim blaming.
This past Friday, a conservative member of the British Parliament told advised women to avoid being raped by practicing “risk management”, i.e. not wearing short skirts and high heels. MP Richard...
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Reflections on the National Sexual Assault Conference: Feminist empowerment...
Denice Labertew, CALCASA Director of Advocacy Services As the excitement of another great National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) begins to yield to the reality of implementing all the amazing ideas...
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Comprehensive Prevention: Include both changing social norms and self-defense
New York Times headline on June 11, 2015 about new study. A new study, Efficacy of a Sexual Assault Resistance Program for University Women published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine,...
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STOP SV: CDC on preventing sexual violence
S: Promote Social Norms that Protect Against Violence T: Teach Skills to Prevent Sexual Violence O: Provide Opportunities to Empower and Support Girls and Women P: Create Protective Environments SV:...
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NSVRC releases new interactive & engaging e-learning tool on primary prevention
On November 3, 2016, National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) released a new and interactive e-learning tool, Primary Prevention Primer to help people learn about primary prevention approaches...
View ArticleStop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped
Zerlina Maxwell writes in her recent article Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped in Ebony Magazine that Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long...
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It doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s still victim blaming.
This past Friday, a conservative member of the British Parliament told advised women to avoid being raped by practicing “risk management”, i.e. not wearing short skirts and high heels. MP Richard...
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NSVRC releases new interactive & engaging e-learning tool on primary prevention
On November 3, 2016, National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) released a new and interactive e-learning tool, Primary Prevention Primer to help people learn about primary prevention approaches...
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