The Prevalence and Labeling of Sexual Assault and Rape at Kalamazoo College

Abstract

• Around one in four women will experience sexual assault in college (Elliott, Mok, & Briere, 2004), and one in five women and one in 71 men will experience sexual assault in their lifetimes (U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). • Half of all college students as well as half of all women who are survivors of legally defined rape do not label their experiences as rape (Fisher et al., 2000; Karjane et al., 2005).