ABSTRACT
Certain ethnic and racial minorities experience high rates of sexual and relationship violence and stalking victimization. However, for those who experience sexual and relationship violence and stalking, it can be devastating. This chapter defines sexual and relationship violence and stalking to illustrate how these forms of violence diverge and intersect. For all survivors of sexual and relationship violence and stalking, these experiences can have lasting consequences. Survivors of sexual and relationship violence and stalking suffer from a range of physical, mental, and reproductive health consequences and human capital losses. In 2014, only 9% of US colleges and universities reported any incidences of rape on their campuses, even though statistics show that sexual and relationship violence and stalking occurs on every campus. Students who identify as LGBTQ are at a greater risk for relationship and sexual violence than students who identify as heterosexual, and Black students experience relationship violence at two times the rate of their White counterparts.
