Around a fifth of American women report being raped in their
lifetimes, and figures for sexual assault are even higher. One
survey shows that a staggering 13.1% of college aged men say
they’ve committed rape. What drives men to sexually assault
women and how can we target men to prevent these crimes?
At the same time, convictions for these crimes are extremely low.
One reason for this is the reporting process can be traumatic, and
so around 80% of women never report their assault or rape.
However with little reporting crime experts also have less data to
understand who to target to reduce rape and assaults. So how can
we encourage more victims to report, and what are steps we can
take to combat these crimes and to keep women and girls safe?
If you have been a victim of sexual assault and would like support,
you can reach out to the National Sexual Assault Hotline at
RAINN.org.
Guests:
Jens Ludwig, Economist, University of Chicago
Jess Ladd, Co-founder of The Fund to Prevent Sexual Assault
Kennedy Johnston, Economics PhD student, Texas A&M
University
