• The majority (93%) of molestations of children are not committed by strangers but by people who are known and trusted within or about the family, leaving 7% of crimes against children committed by strangers. 1998 National Violence Against Women Survey revealed that among those women who reported being raped, 76% were victimized by a current or former husband, live-in partner or date.
• A Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that nearly 9 out of 10 rape or sexual assault victimization’s involved a single offender with whom the victim had a prior relationship
• Approximately 60% of boys and 80% of girls who are sexually victimized are abused by someone known to the child or the child’s family.
• Almost 50% of the offenders are household members
• 38% are already acquaintances of the victims. US Department of Justice. (1997) and Finkelhor and Ormond. (2001).
• Based on police-recorded incident data, in 90% of the rapes of children younger than 12, the child knew the offender.
• A large portion (60%) of perpetrators of sexual abuse are known to the child, but are not family (e.g., family friends, babysitters, child care providers).
• 30% of perpetrators are within the family
• 10% are strangers

• Further, reoffense rates vary among different types of sexual offenders and are related to specific characteristics of the offender and the offense.
• Recently the Bureau of Justice Statistics published a study which tracked 9,700 sex offenders for three years, their findings concluded:
• Only 5.3% of these people imprisoned for sex crimes were re-arrested for a subsequent sex offense.
• Where a child was involved, the re-arrest rate dropped to 3.3%.
• Between two adults, the sexual re-offense rate was 2.2%.

• Offenders who have stable housing reoffend less often, than offenders who are homeless, or bounce from place to place.
• “Homelessness increases the risk for recidivism for all criminal offenders, not merely sex offenders. When you put people in a position where they have nothing to lose, they don’t really have a stake in conforming.” – Dr. Jill Levenson

• As of 1998, 2.78 million men in the U.S. had been victims of attempted or completed rape.

• 27% are Black
• 8% are unknown ethnicity
• 6% other
• 1% mixed race

• 15% in an open or public place
• 12% at or near a relatives home
• 10% in an enclosed, but public place
• 8% on school property

• 29% were traveling to and from work or school, or traveling to shop or run errands
• 12% were working
• 7% were attending school
• 5% were doing an unknown or other activity

• 12% of gay men reported having been victims of forced sex by a partner
• 31% of lesbian women reported having been victims of forced sex by a partner

• One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college
  Krebs, C. P., Lindquist, C., Warner, T., Fisher, B., & Martin, S. (2007). The campus sexual assault (CSA) study: Final report.
• 4% of college males reported being sexually assaulted
• 18% of college females reported being sexually assaulted
• 21% of TGQN (transgender, genderqueer, nonconforming) college students reported being sexually assaulted
• 4% of college males in the study admitted having committed a sexual assault.
  • 26% admitted having made a forceful attempt at sexual intercourse that caused observable distress in the woman.
  • 63.3% of men at one university who self-reported acts qualifying as rape or attempted rape admitted to committing repeat rapes
• Women in sororities are 74% more likely to experience rape than other college women, and those who live in the sorority house are over three times as likely to experience rape
• Two different longitudinal studies have found that fraternity men are three times more likely to commit sexual assault than other college men

• And another indicated that only 32% of sexual assaults against persons 12 or older were reported to law enforcement.
• More than 90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report the assault
• 81% of victims in the Military did not report the crime in 2016.
• 28% will report to protect the household or victim from further crimes by the offender
• 25% will report to stop the incident or prevent recurrence or escalation
• 21% will report to improve police surveillance or they believed they had a duty to do so
• 17% will report to catch/punish/prevent offender from reoffending
• 6% gave a different answer, or declined to cite one reason
• 3% did so to get help or recover loss
• 20% feared retaliation
• 13% believed the police would not do anything to help
• 13% believed it was a personal matter
• 8% reported to a different official
• 8% believed it was not important enough to report
• 7% did not want to get the perpetrator in trouble
• 2% believed the police could not do anything to help
• 30% gave another reason, or did not cite one reason

Victims are most likely to report being sexually assaulted when:

• The assailant is a stranger
• The victim is physically injured during the attack
• A weapon was used