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	NCJ Number:		NCJ 219181
	Title:		Drug-facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape: A National Study
	URL(s):		PDF
	Dataset URL:		DATASET 1
	Author(s):		Dean G. Kilpatrick Ph.D. ; Heidi S. Resnick Ph.D. ; Kenneth J. Ruggiero Ph.D. ; Lauren M. Conoscenti M.A. ; Jenna McCauley M.S.
	Corporate Author:		Medical University of South Carolina National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Ctr United States of America
	Date Published:		02/2007
	Page Count:		70
	Annotation:		This study identified how many women in the United States and in college settings have ever been raped or sexually assaulted during their lifetime and within the past year, key case characteristics of drug-facilitated and forcible rapes and, factors that affected women's reporting of rape to police or seeking help from a support network; and it compared different types of rape.
	Abstract:		The findings show that approximately 20 million out of 112 million women (18 percent) in the United States have ever been raped, including an estimated 18 million women who have been forcibly raped, nearly 3 million who have experienced drug-facilitated rape, and 3 million who have been raped while incapacitated. Only 16 percent of all rapes were reported to law enforcement. Victims of drug-facilitated or rape while they were incapacitated were somewhat less likely to report the rape to authorities than victims of forcible rape. Major barriers to reporting rape included not wanting others to know about the rape, fear of retaliation, perception that evidence was insufficient, uncertainty about how to report the crime, and uncertainty about whether a crime was committed or whether the offender intended her harm. Injury was reported for 52 percent of forcible rape incidents and 30 percent of drug-facilitated or incapacitated rape incidents. Approximately 673,000 of nearly 6 million current college women (11.5 percent) have ever been raped, with an estimated half-million college women having been forcibly raped, 160,000 experiencing drug-facilitated rape, and just over 200,000 having been raped while incapacitated. Among college women, approximately 12 percent of rapes were reported to law enforcement. Consistent with the national sample, victims of drug-facilitated or incapacitated rape were less likely than victims of forcible rape to report it to police. Reasons for not reporting the rape were similar to those for nonreporting in the national sample. 52 exhibits and 51 references
	Main Term(s):		Female victims
	Index Term(s):		Rape ; Higher education ; Comparative analysis ; Citizen crime reporting ; Rape statistics ; NIJ grant-related documents
	Sponsoring Agency:		National Institute of Justice (NIJ) US Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs United States of America
	Grant Number:		2005-WG-BX-0006
	Sale Source:		National Institute of Justice/NCJRS Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849 United States of America NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America
	Type:		Report (Study/Research)
	Country:		United States of America
	Language:		English
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