ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on combination of both social normative and individual factors that contributes to the alarmingly high rate of perpetration among college males by reviewing the etiological research in regard to sexual assault perpetration. It reviews the men's risk for sexual assault perpetration against women within the context of brief dating or acquaintance relationships given that research suggests that the overwhelming majority of the sexual assaults committed on college campuses. The chapter addresses the developmental, mental health, cognitive, and sociocultural factors that have shown to be risk factors for sexual assault perpetration. It provides a brief discussion of anthropologic theories that appear to add predictive utility to the determination of men's risk for sexual assault perpetration in college environments. It presents a review of multifactor theories and longitudinal research that have shown to discern various types of perpetrators within the heterogeneous population of offenders. Alcohol problem has been one of the most widely researched predictors of sexual assault perpetration.
