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Local Statistics

Crime Victim Center of Erie County provided comprehensive intervention, crisis support, and advocacy to nearly 6,000 total in the year 2015 alone.

Among these numbers were 853 total survivors of sexual violence which includes:

  • 350 adults who’ve experienced sexual assault and abuse directly
  • 250 children
  • 253 significant others

CVC returned $121,851.39 in Crime Victims Compensation for 71 claims.

Lastly, CVC’s Prevention Education team presented more than 600 programs to 19,572 participants!

  • 499 presentations to 15,965 students
  • 61 trainings to 1,644 professionals
  • 20 presentations to 688 college students
  • 56 programs to 1,275 adults in the community

The Prevention Education department presented programs on:

  • Sexual abuse
  • Internet safety
  • Bullying
  • Cyberbullying
  • Boundaries
  • Healthy relationships
  • Youth violence
  • Sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Human trafficking
  • Mandated Reporting

National Statistics

  • There is an average of 293,066 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year. (U.S. Department of Justice. National Crime Victimization Survey. 2009-2013.)
  • 44% of victims are under the age of 18 (Rainn.org)
  • 80% are under age 30 (Rainn.org)

College Campus Statistics

  • 20% – 25% of college women and 15% of college men are victims of forced sex during their time in college (b)
  • A 2002 study revealed that 63.3% of men at one university who self-reported acts qualifying as rape or attempted rape admitted to committing repeat rapes (i)
  • More than 90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report the assault (b)
  • 27% of college women have experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact (f)

Sexual Assault in the U.S.

  • 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives (a)
  • 51.1% of female victims of rape reported being raped by an intimate partner and 40.8% by an acquaintance (a)
  • 52.4% of male victims report being raped by an acquaintance and 15.1% by a stranger (a)
  • 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female, and 9% are male (n)
  • In 8 out of 10 cases of rape, the victim knew the perpetrator (k)
  • 8% of rapes occur while the victim is at work (d)

Reporting to the Police

  • Rape is the most under-reported crime of ALL crimes (Rainn.org)
  • 68% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police (Rainn.org)
  • 98% of rapists will never spend a day in jail (Rainn.org)
  • The prevalence of false reporting is low between 2% and 10%. (j)
sexual assault statistics

The Good News

Sexual assault has fallen by 49% in recent years.

Had the 1993 rate held steady, about 9.7 million Americans would have been assaulted in the last 20 years. Thanks to the decline, the actual number of victims was about 4.2 million. If not for the progress we’ve made in the last 20 years, an additional 5.5 million Americans would have become victims of sexual violence.

While we should be happy that we’re making progress, we are still a very long way from solving this problem. (Taken from RAINN.org and Department of Justice. National Crime Victimization Survey. 1993-2013.)

References

http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/nsvrc-publications-fact-sheets/media-packet-statistics-about-sexual-violence

(a) Black, M. C., Basile, K. C., Breiding, M. J., Smith, S .G., Walters, M. L., Merrick,
M. T., Stevens, M. R. (2011). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence
Survey (NISVS): 2010 summary report. Retrieved from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control:
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

(b) Cullen, F., Fisher, B., & Turner, M., The sexual victimization of college
women (NCJ 182369). (2000). Retrieved from the U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of
Justice: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf

(c) Delisi, M. (2010). Murder by numbers: Monetary costs imposed by a sample of
homicide offenders. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 21, 501-513.
doi:10.1080/14789940903564388

(d) Duhart, D. (2001). Violence in the Workplace, 1993-99. Bureau of Justice
Statistics. Available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/vw99.pdf

(e) Finkelhor, D., Hotaling, G., Lewis, I. A., & Smith, C. (1990). Sexual abuse in a
national survey of adult men and women: Prevalence, characteristics and risk
factors. Child Abuse & Neglect 14, 19-28. doi:10.1016/0145-2134(90)90077-7

(f) Gross, A. M., Winslett, A., Roberts, M., & Gohm, C. L. (2006). An Examination of
Sexual Violence Against College Women. Violence Against Women, 12, 288-300.
doi: 10.1177/1077801205277358

(g) Hanson, R. F., Resnick, H. S., Saunders, B. E., Kilpatrick, D. G., & Best, C. (1999).
Factors related to the reporting of childhood rape. Child Abuse and Neglect,
23(6), 559–569.

(h) Heenan, M., & Murray, S. (2006). Study of reported rapes in Victoria 2000-
2003: Summary research report. Retrieved from the State of Victoria (Australia),
Department of Human Services: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0004/644152/StudyofReportedRapes.pdf

(i) Lisak, D., Gardinier, L., Nicksa, S. C., & Cote, A. M. (2010). False allegations of
sexual assault: An analysis of ten years of reported cases. Violence Against
Women, 16, 1318-1334. doi:10.1177/1077801210387747

(j) Lonsway, K. A., Archambault, J., & Lisak, D. (2009). False reports: Moving beyond
the issue to successfully investigate and prosecute non-stranger sexual assault.
The Voice, 3(1), 1-11. Retrieved from the National District Attorneys Association:
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf

(k) Miller, T. R., Cohen, M. A., & Wiersema, B. (1996). Victim costs and
consequences: A new look (NCJ 155282). Retrieved from the U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/victcost.pdf

(l) National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. (2012).
National Plan to Prevent the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children.
Retrieved from http://www.preventtogether.org/Resources/Documents/
NationalPlan2012FINAL.pdf

(m) National Sexual Violence Resource Center. (2011). Child sexual abuse
prevention: Overview. Retrieved from http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/
Publications_NSVRC_Overview_Child-sexual-abuse-prevention_0.pdf

(n) Rennison, C. A. (2002). Rape and sexual assault: Reporting to police and
medical attention, 1992-2000 [NCJ 194530]. Retrieved from the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsarp00.pdf

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