The Rape Prone Culture of Academic Contexts
About two decades ago, feminist sociologists stopped focusing on rape and sexual assault even though rapes and their destructive toll on girls and women did not end. Rape did not diminish appreciably and neither did the legal justice system dramatically improve its treatment of victims. Perhaps this is why 80 percent of women college students and 67 percent of noncollege women fail to report being raped to the police (Langton and Siznocich 2014, citing National Crime Survey data) We now know that the