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Originally Posted by AGDee
If those statistics are wrong, what are the real ones?
I've read statistics that said 1 in 5 women are raped in their lifetime. In the circle of friends I know well enough to share such information, that statistic seems pretty accurate, if not a little low.
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I posted information earlier in this thread, including a link to the latest DOJ crime stats. And the observation that a 1 in 5 number would mean that our college campuses are more dangerous than our most dangerous inner cities.
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There is a primary and robust emphasis on prevention on a lot of campuses. I don't know what world you live in, but every campus tour we went on emphasized escort services and told young women not to walk alone at night. Columbia/Barnard freshman orientation includes a session about rape, including date rape. I believe it was Lambda Chi Alpha who had a program they did on campuses about date rape at least a decade or more ago. Take Back the Night rallies are held on every campus I know of. You don't think that's a primary and robust emphasis on prevention?
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As you note, college women are given specific strategies for preventing stranger rape, such as not walking alone at night. The incident of stranger rape is quite low.
What, specifically, are the preventive strategies women are being given for avoiding date/aquaintance rape, which account for the vast majority of "crisis"?
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