College women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted than the rest of the population, yet 95.2% of rapes on campus will never be reported, according to the Department of Justice. The National College Women Sexual Victimization study, which surveyed 4,446 women, found that many survivors don’t want to believe that something as horrible as rape could have happened to them, so they deny that it was rape. Others are afraid they’ll be ostracized by their friends if they accuse a fellow student. And some aren’t sure that the attacker meant to harm them—since most rapes covered on the news involve a scary stranger wielding a weapon, it may be hard to imagine that an assault taking place in your own dorm room by a guy you know is also considered rape.
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Why Most Victims Don’t Report Rape - Cosmopolitan
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