Sexual violence is a serious public health problem affecting the health and well-being of millions of individuals each year in the United States an...

Sexual assault constitutes both physical and mental violence, and it is not easily recovered from. Victims/survivors of sexual assault may experien...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has focused more public attention on the Catholic Church in Australia than ...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has focused more public attention on the Catholic Church in Australia than ...

Schools are entrusted with ensuring the safety of students and staff. One measure of the safety of America's public schools is the presence of viol...

This book attempts to uncover school violence in different contexts by presenting studies of expert practitioners, which highlight concepts, risk f...

According to DOJ, tribal nations are disproportionately affected by violent crimes and sex offenses in particular. In 2006, Congress passed SORNA, ...

This book deals with society's responses to sex offenders. This issue is of vital interest to law enforcement professionals and society at large. T...

Over the past 100 years, Congress has sought to prohibit acts of sexual abuse of minors and punish those who harm the nation's children. These effo...

The trafficking of persons has frequently been described as a "modern" or "Twenty-First Century" form of slavery. According to the Department of St...

The trafficking of individuals within U.S borders is commonly referred to as domestic human trafficking, and it occurs in every state of the nation...

Approximately 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys below the age of 18 are victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) according to the Centers for Disease Control...

While all child abuse is troubling, sexual abuse by school personnel raises particular concerns because of the trust placed in schools. Federal law...

Media reports of the sexual abuse of youth athletes by their coaches have raised questions about how athletic organisations protect against such ab...

Sexual victimisation is highly prevalent in the United States, with 63% of women and 24% of men reporting experiences of sexual victimisation in th...

This book examines how the Department of Defense and its Armed Services -- the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the Services) respond to Se...

Sexual assault is a crime that devastates victims and has a far-reaching negative impact for The Department of Defense (DOD) because it undermines ...

Females have long been viewed as the primary victims of sexual assault but, based on survey data, RAND estimated that in 2014, about 9,000 to about...

Sexual harassment is degrading and illegal. Studies show it has a negative effect on the ability of women to engage in research at the same level a...

This book brings together chapters dealing with sexual harassment and violence, legal developments, as well as sexual harassment in the workplace, ...

In the United States there are 237,868 victims of reported rape and sexual assault per year, with a sexual offense occurring every two minutes. Pub...