College Women Less Likely to Report Sex Assault Than Nonstudents
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College women who have been sexually assaulted are less likely to report the crime to police than female nonstudents in the same age range, according to a U.S. Justice Department study.
About 20 percent of women 18 to 24 years old and enrolled in college said they told police after being sexually assaulted, according to a study released today by the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. The rate of reporting to police among other women who were sexually assaulted was 32 percent, the study said.