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Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped

January 19, 2012

posted in: prevention

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 as men commit the majority of rapes, men need to be at the heart of our tactics for preventing them.  Let’s stop

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Evolution and rape avoidance: a good combination?

June 17, 2010

posted in: prevention

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. suggest  an additional factor: rape circumvents her choice of a sexual partner and harms her “reproductive success.” Based on the

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What is the role of parents to prevent sexual victimization?

March 4, 2010

posted in: prevention

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 parents. A recent study ePublished in Prevention Science examines a parent based intervention to prevent college women’s sexual victimization. The logic of

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Risk Recognition and Intimate Partner Violence

February 3, 2010

posted in: prevention

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.

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Can reducing women’s drinking prevent rape?

December 14, 2009

posted in: prevention

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 the relationship between potential victim’s alcohol use and sexual assault.  While I am pleased to see that the purpose of this analysis is to explore the

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