ABSTRACT
This chapter scientifically investigates how many women had experienced rape and other forms of sexual victimization. It argues that nondisclosure of rape and sexual assault is a much more common problem in reaching valid estimates of rape prevalence for reasons. There are a number of possible reasons why so many more women in Russell’s study reported experiences of rape, including the possibility that the method of recruiting participants led to a final sample weighted toward women who had experienced rape. Consistent with the suggestion that methodological factors importantly relate to the figures produced, it is interesting to look at Mary Koss’s well-known research on rape prevalence.
