Final Project REFLECTION

Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment: Facts & Stats Definitions & Resources   RI General Laws, Definitions

Sexual Assault: First Degree (RIGL 11-37-2) A person is guilty of 1st degree sexual assault if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person and

• The accused knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapacitated, mentally disabled or physically helpless
• The accused uses force or coercion.
• The accused, through concealment or surprise, is able to overcome the victim.
• The accused engages in the medical treatment or examination of the victim for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification or stimulation.

Sexual assault 2nd degree: (RIGL 11-37-4) Same as 1st degree, except that instead of penetration, sexual contact

Sexual assault 3rd degree: (RIGL 11-37-6) A person is guilty of third degree sexual assault if he or she is over the age of eighteen (18) years and engages in sexual penetration with another person over the age of fourteen (14) and under the age of consent, sixteen (16) years of age.

Child molestation, 1st degree: (RIGL 11-37-8.1) A person is guilty of child molestation sexual assault if he or she engages in sexual penetration of a person fourteen (14) or under

Child molestation, 2nd degree: (RIGL 11-37-8.2) Same as 1st except sexual contact

Sexual harassment: (RIGL 28-52-8) A form of discrimination that occurs when an individual makes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and/or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), sexual harassment occurs when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. The harasser can be a supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker or a non-employee. The harasser also can be the same gender as the victim.

Options for reporting and resources for support:

• Parent
• Teacher
• School nurse
• Nurse or doctor
• School counselor or administrator
• Trusted adult
• Local police department
• RI State Police
• 24 hr Crime victim hotline 1-800-494-8100
• 24 hr Hate crime hotline 1-877-3HCRIME
• Day One Sexual assault and trauma resource center- 1-800-494-8100
• GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders 1-617-426-1350
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 401-222-6398
• Attorney General’s office Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit 277-4400

Day One: FACTS & STATS

General

·         Every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Every 8 minutes, that victim is a child. 

·         In Rhode Island, it is estimated that 1 in 8 women have been sexually assaulted during their lifetime.

·         About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30.

·         More than 59% of all sexual assaults go unreported to police. 

·         Only 6 of every 1,000 perpetrators will end up in prison. 

·         Almost 9% of Rhode Island’s high school students reported that they had experienced sexual violence by someone they were dating or going out with in the last 12 months.  (YRBS, 2013)

·         As of 1998, 2.78 million American men had been victims of attempted or completed rape.

·         1 in 6 American women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.

·         Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape or sexual assault. 

·         94% of women who are raped experience PTSD symptoms during the two weeks after the rape

·         Among adults, 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger. Among college women, that number rises to 80%.

·         About 25% of women in the military have been sexually assaulted during their careers.

·         Native Americans are twice as likely to experience a rape/sexual assault compared to all other races. 

·         People who identify as LGBQ/T experience sexual and domestic violence at the same or higher rates than those who identify heterosexual. (NISVS 2010)

·         21% of LGBTQ+ college students have been sexually assaulted.

·         55% of assaults happen near or at the victim’s home. 

Children

·         One of every seven victims (or 14% of all victims) of sexual assault reported to law enforcement agencies was under age 6. One in three victims of sexual assault is under age 12.

·         One in every four girls and one in every six boys will be a victim of sexual abuse before age 18.

·         In more than 90% of child abuse cases, the victim knows his or her abuser. Almost half the time, it’s a family member.

·         According to Child Protective Services, from 2009-2013 63,000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse. 

People with Disabilities

·         Among people with developmental disabilities, as many as 83% of females and 32% of males are victims of sexual assault.

·         Each year, 15,000 to 19,000 people with developmental disabilities are raped in the United States.

·         Persons with disabilities were the victims of violent crime three times as much as persons without disabilities in 2013. 1.3 crimes happened in 2013

·         Educational & Community Outreach

Sources:

·         2015 Bureau of Justice Stats

·         2005 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

·         Ruggiero, K. J., & Kilpatrick, D.G. (2003). Rape in Rhode Island: A Report to the State. Charleston, SC: National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina.

·         2005 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

·         Snyder, Howard, Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics . U.S. Department of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. July 2000.

·         2005 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

·         Snyder, H. and Sickmund, M., 1999. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Juvenile Justice.

·         Snyder, H. and Sickmund, M., 1999. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Juvenile Justice.

·         Johnson, I., Sigler, Ri. 2000. "Forced Sexual Intercourse Among Intimates," Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 15 (1)

·         Sobsey, D. 1994. "Violence and abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities: The End of Silent Acceptance?"

·         2005 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

·         Snyder, H. and Sickmund, M., 1999. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Juvenile Justice.

·         Fisher, Bonnie, Cullen, Francis, Turner, Michael. (2000). The Sexual Victimization of College Women.Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

·         RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network). (n.d.). Statistics United States. Retrieved October 7, 2016 from https://rainn.org/statistics

·         United States Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. (2014). Not Alone:  The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault. Retrieved from https://www.notalone.gov/assets/report.pdf

·         Finkelhor, David, Hotaling, G., Lweis, I., Smith, C. “Sexual Abuse in a National Survey of Adult Men and Women: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Risk Factors.” Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol. 14, pp. 19-28, 1990.+

·         Laura Kann, PhD,1 Steve Kinchen,1 Shari L. Shanklin, MPH,1 et al., Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance MMWR 2014; 63(No. SS-#4): 10-11