ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief history of campus sexual assault, summarizes key research, presents pilot data of female students’ experiences with campus sexual assault. Media headline coverage also included criminal cases of college men. In January 2015, two former Vanderbilt University football stars were convicted by a Nashville jury of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery. A crucial component of prevention and intervention programs is to identify and target risk factors associated with sexual misconduct. Studies of risk to perpetrate sexual aggression among college students emerged in the 1980s, beginning with N. M. Malamuth’s groundbreaking on prediction of likelihood to rape. The circumstances that commonly foster reluctance to report sexual assault are precisely the same circumstances that are most frequently encountered on college campuses—assaultive behavior that occurs in the context of a date or at a party, frequently involving alcohol.
