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Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice
As part of a collaborative effort with the Investigative News Network, the Center for Public Integrity finds that students responsible for sexual assault on college campuses often receive no punishment, yet their victims' lives are turned upside down. Even when the perpetrator is a repeat offender, college judicial systems rarely expel the student.
Tags: sexual assault; rape; victim; perpetrator; sex crime; rapist; rape victim; rape on campus; rape in college
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Campus Sexual Assault: A Culture of Indifference
The stories explored the "culture of indifference" that many college women report experiencing after being sexually assaulted. Many schools across the country are in denial about the scope of the problem and the systems in place for women to report assaults are often barely existent at many campuses. Victims in the story tell their stories and explain how their school's handling of their assault cases only made things worse.
Tags: sexual assault; culture of indifference; rape; date rape; rapist; college; university
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Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice
Roughly one in five college women will become the victim of a rape or an attempted rape before she graduates. The Center for Public Integrity's investigation reveals that the students "responsible" for these sexual assaults on college campuses often face little or no punishment, while the lives of the victims are turned upside down. Rarely are those who are responsible expelled, even those who are repeat offenders.
Tags: rape; sexual assault; victim; attempted rape; Department of Justice; college
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Gang Rape, Murder and Justice in a Small Town
"The re-investigation of a 27-year-old murder. For the first time anywhere, the story revealed the details of how Janet Chandler was killed in a gang rape that was shockingly engineered by a jealous female roommate."
Tags: rape; gang rape; re-investigation; murder; criminal trial; Michigan State Police; cold case; police; Hope College; Michigan
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Insecurity on Campus
As reported by two teams of journalism students at Southern Methodist University and Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas, many colleges were failing to inform students about violent crimes-such as rape-in and around their campuses. Also, many campuses were misinterpreting or ignoring the Clery Act, which requires disclosure of campus-related crimes. Many rapes were ignored or were logged as simple 'assaults'. As a result, U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the story's findings.
Tags: campus crimes; date rape; sexual abuse; sex; college; Clery Act; Texas universities; U.S. Department of Education
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Casualties of Peace
A nearly-two year long investigation by the Dayton Daily News discovered widespread violence, including murders, against volunteers in the Peace Corps. "They have died at the rate of about one every two months since 1962," and "reported incidents of assault on volunteers more than doubled since 1991," with women the prime targets of such attacks. This seven-part series -- based on interviews with more than 500 people in nearly a dozen countries and a crime incident database obtained from the Peace Corps after a lengthy court battle -- reveals a disturbing pattern of unsafe conditions that were long masked or even covered up by the Peace Corps. In ten death cases examined by the Daily News, the paper found the "Peace Corps misled families, the public or other volunteers about the circumstances of the deaths." The Corps' policies resulted in sending ill-trained volunteers "alone to some of the most dangerous corners of the world where they may be unsupervised for months on end." These volunteers, frequently young people fresh out of school, receive little to no training about what they will encounter and how to stay safe. The newspaper's investigation also found the behavior of Peace Corps volunteers themselves often puts them at risk. "Alcohol was identified as a factor in nearly one in three assaults since 1999," and "in more than half of the reported rapes since 1990, the attacker was identified as a 'friend/acquaintance.'"
Tags: peace corps; peace; volunteer; volunteering; college; school; goodwill; oversees; foreign; international; government; service; CAR; database; legal; lawsuit; FOIA
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UC keeps sex crimes in shadows
A five-month Bee investigation finds that "reports of rapes and sexual assaults at University of California campuses are seldom made public each year despite a decade-old federal law created to force colleges to do so." Bee reporters found that several UC campuses violated the federal campus crime reporting law, called the Clery Act. "The result: annual crime reports provided to students and parents that create a misleading portrayal of safety at UC campuses." While the nine UC campuses reported 60 forcible sex offenses in 1998, including rapes, the Bee discovered "at least 190 cases of rape and forcible sex offenses...The figure is by no means comprehensive." UC Irvine and UC Riverside sidestepped the more stringent reporting requirements of the Clery Act by using FBI statistics.
Tags: Clery Act; sexual assault; sex crimes; universities; colleges; campus crime statistics; University of California; U.S. Department of Education
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Hunt for the college town rapist
In 1995 investigators from Georgia and Florida collaborated in tracking down a serial rapist who had terrorized women at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida dating all the way back to 1977.
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"I was raped"
Spelman College and its brother school, Morehouse College, have been in an uproar over a freshman's student's accusation that four Morehouse men sexually assaulted her. Robinson, a rape survivor, explores the accusation.
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Brown University's Handling of Date-Rade Case Leaves Many Questioning Campus Policies
Brown University, like many other colleges, has enacted a conduct code that punishes students for sexual conduct that would not be illegal in a court of law. The codes have been praised for making women feel safer on campuses. But some say the codes have gone to far, and they point to Adam Lack as a case in point. In unrefuted testimony, Mr. Lack said he had sex with a female student who initiated the sex. Nonetheless, Mr. Lack was punished by Brown, and his reputation was tarnished when the student newspaper named him as the guilty party. This story looks at whether college attempts to regulate sexual conduct deny due process to men, and are based on patronizing assumptions about women. (October 11, 1996)