Apr 11, 2023 · Sexual assault is a widespread issue in the United States, with nearly 325,000 people experiencing rape or sexual assault in 2021, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Moreover, sexual assault can have lifelong physical, emotional and financial impacts.

Jan 24, 1994 · Foreword Sexual violence continues to plague our Nation and destroy lives. All members of society are vulnerable to this crime, regardless of race, age, gender, ability, or social standing. When sexual assault does occur, victims deserve competent and compassionate care. This second edition of the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations provides detailed guidelines ...

Sexual assault investigations may become complicated and labor intensive. Officers involved in sexual assault investigations should have specialized training in modern investigative procedures including the proper method for interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects.

Significant changes to improve the treatment of sexual assault victims and hold perpe- trators accountable have occurred in the past two-and-a-half decades. During the early 1970s, the first communitybased sexual assault programs mere established. The treatment of victims in the criminal justice system came under scrutiny, and hundreds of lam were passed to protect sexual assault x ictims in ...

The SAFER Working Group, which convened over the course of more than two years, consisted of subject matter experts empaneled by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and representing victims, victim advocates, sexual assault nurse examiners, medical examiners, forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and the judiciary. The working group considered issues relating to ...

The variability is due in large part to differences in measurement and definitions of sexual assault among studies. To date, the majority of research on campus sexual assault has been limited to white, heterosexual, female students attending four-year colleges.

Sexual assault is a violent crime, motivated by the rapist's desire to degrade and dominate the victim. Precise profiles of victims and rapists can not be constructed, since every person is a potential target of sexual assault, and the rapist does not have characteristics that necessarily distinguish him from nonrapists, although rapists tend to …

The purpose of this protocol is to assist hospitals and other medical facilities in complying with the special needs of sexual assault victims, their families and friends, and to comply properly with the requirements of law enfol~cement authori ties who consider the immediate medical care provider a necessary witness in the prosecution of the ...

ABSTRACT The Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) Study adds to the literature by using a national sample of Latino women to determine the extent of sexual victimization alone and the overlap of sexual victimization with other forms of victimization. Additional distinguishing

THE CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT (CSA) STUDY Sexual assault is a public health and public safety problem with far-reaching implications. Although a substantial body of research on sexual assault exists, additional data are needed to help document the current magnitude of the problem, the extent to which certain subpopulations are impacted, the consequences and reporting (or nonreporting) of ...