Media coverage often reports “good” news about the criminal justice system's ability to
effectively respond to sexual assault, concluding that the past two decades have seen an …

Over the past 50 years, researchers in the United States and abroad have debated the
inherent inequities within justice systems that contribute to the underreporting of crime to the …

This study examines the emotional and mental health effects revenge porn has on female
survivors. To date, no other academic studies have exclusively focused on mental health …

We assessed 12-month prevalence and incidence data on sexual victimization in 5 federal
surveys that the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Rape affects one in seven women nationwide. Historically, most rape victims do not report
rape to law enforcement. Research is needed to identify barriers to reporting and correlates …

The legal reforms of the 1960s and 1970s notwithstanding, sexual assault is a crime
characterized by underreporting and case attrition. In this article, the authors synthesize …

Although many efforts have been made during the past several decades to increase the
reporting of crime to the police, we know little about the nature of long‐term crime‐reporting …

Background: Studies indicate that a small percentage of rapes are reported to law
enforcement officials. Research also suggests that rapes perpetrated by a stranger are more …

Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-
wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical …

An examination of 944 victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS) finds that one in five women who reveal an incident of sexual victimization to the …