Journal Article - Goldberg, Michelle. “Campus Rape Crisis." The Nation 298.25-26 (2014): 12ff-.Web.

Goldberg provides in depth discussions on the campus rape crisis. Goldberg discusses campus rapes and how they have increased due to a combination of law enforcement failure and federal regulation. He explains that disciplinary boards have rarely done a good job of handling sexual assault cases because the members usually don’t have training in law, investigation or the use of physical evidence. These boards are typically composed of faculty and sometimes students, they were originally created to handle honor code issues like plagiarism and underage drinking. These boards were never intended to try serious crimes such as sexual assaults. This article is relevant to my issue because it discusses sexual assault cases on college campuses. I can use this article to explain why campus rape has increased.

 

Newspaper Article – Kirsten.Gillibrand “Campus Rapes.” The Record (Hanckensack, N.J): A.18 2014. Web

 Kirsten Gillibrand is a sponsor of the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. Kirsten Gillibrand provides in depth discussions on the controversial issue of rape on college campuses. She explains how crimes are being treated unequally. If this crime was treated universally rape would decrease on college campuses. She also explains why rapes are not being reported. These reasons include not wanting anyone to know, fear the police will not believe them, and not knowing how much control they will have after they report to the police. Colleges can use this information to improve school policies, improve disciplinary boards, and increase police involvement on campus. This information is important because it addresses the issue.

 

Book - Leone, Bruno. Rape on Campus. San Diego, California.: Greenhaven, 1995. 120.

Print. Leone provides in depth discussions on the controversial issue of rape on college campuses. He focuses mainly on the Antioch sexual offense prevention policy (SOPP), which is a campus-wide policy of Antioch College. This policy states “all sexual interactions must be consensual” and “non-consensual interactions are not tolerated at Antioch College.” Leone also discusses the positive views of the sexual offense prevention policy, negative views of the sexual offense prevention policy, responses to the sexual offense prevention policy, alternative prevention plans to control campus rape, sexual politics on campus, radical feminist views of rape, critiques of “rape-crisis” feminists, alternative views of rape, student professor relations, and if rape should be considered a civil rights offense. This is beneficial to my argument because it provides different views of campus rapes.

 

Website - Kingkade, Tyler. “Campus Rape May be ‘Worse Than We Thought,’ Study Shows. “The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 May 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/1-in-5-college-study-raped_n_7293068.html

Kingkade provides statistics and studies for college sexual assaults. According to Kingkade, “the Journal of Adolescent Health, surveyed 480 female freshmen at a university in upstate New York in 2010 and these results confirmed other research that has found about 20% percent of women are victimized by sexual assault in college." These studies and statistics show that college rapes have increased. These studies and statistics also show that rapes are very common on college campuses. Colleges can use this information provided to take proper precautions to ensure their students safety. This article is important because it gives specific numbers of campus rapes.

 

Statistical Fact Sheet – “Who Are the Victims? | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.” Who Are the Victims? | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Web. https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims                

This website is the official website of RAINN (Rape, abuse, and incest national network), the nation’s largest anti-sexual organization. This website includes statistics pertaining to rape, abuse, and incest. These statistics are categorized by women, men, children, campus sexual violence, and effects of rape. The website is relevant to my issue because it provides sexual assault statistics. For example, “Male college aged students are 78% more likely than nonstudents to be a victim of rape or sexual assault.” The website is important because it provides the types of sexual assault, how to reduce their risk, the effects of sexual assault, the aftermath of sexual assault, and how to recover from sexual result.