RISK

FACTORS FOR VICTIMS

RACE ALCOHOL

AMERICAN INDIAN college women are 78% of sexual assaults involve alcohol 9
the MOST LIKELY to be raped1

WHITE college women are raped MORE than 1 in 3 victims are passed out, drunk, or
asleep9
African American, Hispanic, and Asian Women

and are LESS LIKELY to REPORT1
Heavy drinking in HIGH SCHOOL indicates

HIGHER RISK of sexual assault in college1
AFRICAN AMERICAN college women
are MOST LIKELY to REPORT sexual assault1

SORORITY MEMBERSHIP

1 in 4 sexual assault victims are
SORORITY MEMBERS1

Perpetrators used physical force, drugs, and
alcohol to get sex MORE on SORORITY women7

Going to FRATERNITY PARTIES once a month

INCREASES chances of sexual assault3

AGE SEXUAL IDENTITY AND GENDER IDENTITY

Little research has been done on LGBT sexual assault on college campuses.
Still, we can use statistics from national studies of LGBT lifetime sexual
assault statistics to infer that much of this is happening on college campuses,
3 OUT OF 4 too.

sexual assault victims are 1 IN 8 1 IN 2 1 IN 4

LESBIANS BISEXUALS HETEROSEXUALS
FRESHMEN or
SOPHOMORES 9
(women) are SEXUALLY ASSAULTED in their lifetimes5
*5 - The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey interviewed 18,049 people from
all 50 states in 2010

1/3 of bisexual rape victims are 18-24 years old5

MOST of the PERPETRATORS are MEN
(98.3% of bisexual victims reported male perpetrators)5

64% of TRANSGENDER people are SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED in their lifetimes6
*6- The National Center for Transgender Equality study of 7,500 people in all 50 states.