Thursday, April 28, 2016

Is Male Rape More Common at College Than in Prison? Yes, Suggests the White House.

Is Male Rape More Common at College Than in Prison? Yes, Suggests the White House. - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"If statistics are true, young men sentenced to prison should breathe a sigh of relief: "At least I wasn't accepted to Harvard."
Today in difficult-to-fathom statistics: sexual abuse is actually more prevalent on college campuses than it is inside U.S. prisons—if information cited by the White House is to be believed. 
Even crazier: male college students are in greater danger than male inmates.
Since that doesn't actually make a lot of sense, perhaps we should be questioning whether the reports are underreporting prison rape, overreporting college rape, or both.
...But this explanation seems lacking when one considers the data on sexual assaults against men. Oft-cited surveys published by The Washington Post / Kaiser Foundation and the Association of American Universities put the college male victimization rate at between 5 and 8 percent.
The sexual assault rate for male prison inmates, however, is 3.7 percent, according to the White House report.
In other words, the sexual assault rate for men in prison is half what it is for male college students.
...But I have a very difficult time believing that male prisons are significantly safer—for men—than university campuses are.
Try taking that idea to its logical conclusion.
Imagine the parents of a young man who has been sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary: instead of crying, they should breathe a sigh of relief and say, "At least he wasn't admitted to Harvard."...

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