ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book offers some suggestions for continuing to improve the efforts and more importantly the outcomes in the prevention of campus sexual assault in college campuses. It focuses on continued emphasis on bystander intervention and collective responsibility, distributed and integrative programming and multimethod and recurring measurement of sexual assault perpetration. The book explores the measures of rape myth acceptance (RMA) that are consistently and strongly related to indices of rape proclivity and reliably differentiate perpetrators from nonperpetrators. It expresses that although programs are improving in their ability to demonstrably impact rape-supportive beliefs, attitudes, and stated knowledge about sexual assault, and inclination to intervene to help others, there have not been replicable, substantive reductions in actual sexual violence rates stemming from particular programs. Promoting responsible consumption of alcohol and combating binge drinking is arguably an essential component in a multifactorial approach to reducing sexual violence.