
Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance
Theory, Research, and Practice
Description
Key Features
- Reviews theoretical approaches to sexual assault risk reduction
- Summarizes program outcome studies
- Delineates feminist self-defense approaches
- Details what it means for prevention to be "trauma informed"
- Considers how to provide risk reduction without victim-blaming
- Confronts current controversies in the field of sexual assault risk reduction
- Details how prevention can address the role of alcohol in sexual violence
- Discusses international prevention efforts
Readership
Intended for researchers who explore sexual assault risk reduction efforts, practitioners in sexual assault prevention work. It may also be used by those in women’s or gender studies, sociology, or in violence and/or criminal justice
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Current State of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction
3. The Consequences of Rape: Ensuring that Interventions are Trauma InformedPART 2: Risk and Protective Factors
4. Risk for Rape Across the Ecosystem: Outlining a Framework for Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education
5. Perpetrator Characteristics: Implications for Risk Reduction Programming, Policy and Sanctioning on College Campuses
6. “I thought it could never happen to me”: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Risk for Violence
7. Psychological Barriers to Resistance
8. Fighting Back! Efficacy of Women’s Resistance Strategies to Rape
9. Alcohol Use and Risk for Sexual ViolencePART 3: Intervention Approaches and Efficacy
10. Approaches to Sexual Assault Risk Reduction, Resistance, and Self Defense
11. Efficacy of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education Programs
12. Efficacy of Self Defense Training for Rape Resistance
13. Sexual Violence as a Global Health Problem: Theory and Intervention EfficacyPART 4: Special Populations and Topics
14. Reducing Risk for Revictimization: Rationale and Intervention Approaches
15. Risk Reduction among LGBTQ Populations
16. Intersection of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and HIV Prevention
17. Preventing the “Second Assault”: Strategies for Enhancing Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization
Product details
- No. of pages: 470
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: June 14, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128093429
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128053898
About the Editors
Lindsay Orchowski
Affiliations and Expertise
Christine Gidycz
Affiliations and Expertise
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