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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known
A new study gives a portrait of female perpetratorsBy Lara Stemple, Ilan H. Meyer on October 10, 2017 for Scientific American
In 2014, we published a study (LINK IN ARTICLE) on the sexual victimization of men, finding that men were much more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than was thought. To understand who was committing the abuse, we next analyzed four surveys conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to glean an overall picture of how frequently women were committing sexual victimization. The results were surprising. For example, the CDCs nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. Over their lifetime, 79 percent of men who were made to penetrate someone else (a form of rape, in the view of most researchers) reported female perpetrators. Likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had female perpetrators.
We also pooled four years of the National Crime Victimization Survey (LINK IN ARTICLE,NCVS) data and found that 35 percent of male victims who experienced rape or sexual assault reported at least one female perpetrator. Among those who were raped or sexually assaulted by a woman, 58 percent of male victims and 41 percent of female victims reported that the incident involved a violent attack, meaning the female perpetrator hit, knocked down or otherwise attacked the victim, many of whom reported injuries.
And, because we had previously shown that nearly one million incidents of sexual victimization happen in our nations prisons and jails each year, we knew that no analysis of sexual victimization in the U.S. would be complete without a look at sexual abuse happening behind bars. We found that, contrary to assumptions, the biggest threat to women serving time does not come from male corrections staff. Instead, female victims are more than three times as likely to experience sexual abuse by other women inmates than by male staff.
Also surprisingly, women inmates are more likely to be abused by other inmates than are male inmates, disrupting the long held view that sexual violence in prison is mainly about men assaulting men. In juvenile corrections facilities, female staff are also a much more significant threat than male staff; more than nine in ten juveniles who reported staff sexual victimization were abused by a woman.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sexual-victimization-by-women-is-more-common-than-previously-known
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National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Status: Active
Frequency: Ongoing from 1973
Latest data available: 2015
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
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Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known (Original Post)
Sunlei
Oct 2017
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There's such a stigma around sexual violence, no matter the victim or perp.
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 2017
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)1. There's such a stigma around sexual violence, no matter the victim or perp.
I would posit that toxic masculinity is what silences victims no matter their gender, but perhaps that is not the discussion you're looking for.