Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault
Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. In addition to rape and sexual coercion, other forms and behaviors of sexual assault include exhibiting chronic jealousy, accusing one's partner of affairs, having affairs, treating one's partner as a sex object and withholding sex. There are victims of some form of sexual assault in every city and every state in America today. Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual act done by one person to another. Statistics show that most abusers are men and most victims of sexual assault are women. According to The American Medical Association (AMA) “sexual assault continues to represent the most rapidly growing violent crime in America, claiming a victim every 45 seconds” and because many of these attacks go “unreported and unrecognized, sexual assault can be considered a “silent-violent epidemic” in the U.S. today” (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001537.html Sexual Assault: The Silent, Violent Epidemic, 2007). Sexual abuse frequently occurs in relationships in which other forms of abuse are also present (Ferris, Norton, Dunn, Gort and Degani, 1997).
Every two minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Sexual assault does not happen because of race, gender, age, or wealth. These factors are not the cause. Men, women, and children are all targets and victims of this tragic crime. According to studies by RAINN: The nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization (RAINN 2008 | http://www.info@rainn.org) 51% of women have experienced at least one incident of sexual or physical violence, and close to 60% of these women have survived more than one incident of violence. Six out of ten victims who reported being sexually assaulted were under the age of 17. In the year 2000, women made up the vast majority (86%) of victims of sexual assault and the other types of sexual offences came in at 78%. 80 percent of sexual assaults occur at home and 49 % in broad
Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. In addition to rape and sexual coercion, other forms and behaviors of sexual assault include exhibiting chronic jealousy, accusing one's partner of affairs, having affairs, treating one's partner as a sex object and withholding sex. There are victims of some form of sexual assault in every city and every state in America today. Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual act done by one person to another. Statistics show that most abusers are men and most victims of sexual assault are women. According to The American Medical Association (AMA) “sexual assault continues to represent the most rapidly growing violent crime in America, claiming a victim every 45 seconds” and because many of these attacks go “unreported and unrecognized, sexual assault can be considered a “silent-violent epidemic” in the U.S. today” (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001537.html Sexual Assault: The Silent, Violent Epidemic, 2007). Sexual abuse frequently occurs in relationships in which other forms of abuse are also present (Ferris, Norton, Dunn, Gort and Degani, 1997).
Every two minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Sexual assault does not happen because of race, gender, age, or wealth. These factors are not the cause. Men, women, and children are all targets and victims of this tragic crime. According to studies by RAINN: The nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization (RAINN 2008 | http://www.info@rainn.org) 51% of women have experienced at least one incident of sexual or physical violence, and close to 60% of these women have survived more than one incident of violence. Six out of ten victims who reported being sexually assaulted were under the age of 17. In the year 2000, women made up the vast majority (86%) of victims of sexual assault and the other types of sexual offences came in at 78%. 80 percent of sexual assaults occur at home and 49 % in broad