In the United States, organizations work to help victims and to prevent a higher rate of sexual violence. Victims don’t speak up when they are abused and these organizations and campaigns like RAINN help victims approach their dignity back into their lives.
Website organization, RAINN, stand for Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. It is an anti-sexual assault organization that provides victim services (800.656.HOPE) and public education to give the public the understanding of sexual violence as a crime. As a matter of fact, colleges and universities provide services like RAINN (Gaiman, 2014). As I will be rooming next year as I attend college, I am very concerned about the safety my school provides. Wells College in Aurora, New York has Ithaca Rape Crisis center Hotline: 607.277.5000 and SAVAR (Sexual Assault Victim’s Advocate Resource) Hotline: 315.252.2112 (Wells College, 2016).These hotlines provide resources that can prevent a rape from happening and create a better environment.
Although, some campuses provide helpful resources for this issue, occasionally it won’t help if the school only suspends the attacker and say that it was the victim’s fault. The #DontAcceptRape is a campaign from Goodby Silverstein and Partners. This campaign supports survivors and “hold hundreds of colleges accountable for behavior that's unacceptable.” It’s advertisements and videos bring a bit of mockery and sarcasm towards college acceptance letters. These Unacceptable Acceptance Letters consists of real stories from sexual-assault survivors and true based facts about rape on campus. It raises awareness of sexual assault on campus to give a message that schools should protect their students better. One in five women are sexually assaulted in college and “the first six weeks of college is the period when freshmen have the highest likelihood of being raped.” Ninety-five percent of assaults are unreported and 97% of the rapists never set foot on a jail cell not even for a second. Eight in ten survivors of rape and sexual assault knew their attacker and it is every 21 hours that someone is raped in an American college campus. IF THEY ACCEPT YOU, DON’T ACCEPT THEM (Sprankle, 2016).
Besides on college campus, rape also occurs on military armed forces and it proves that rape crime crime, as it accumulates over time, it happens anywhere, which makes anybody feel unsafe. In 2012, out of the 1,427,490 total members of the armed services there were 26,000 estimated victims of unwanted sexual contact. Of these estimated victims, 14,000 were males and 12,000 were females (NSVRC, 2016). A majority of these forced sexual contact go unreported and silenced.
Website organization, RAINN, stand for Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. It is an anti-sexual assault organization that provides victim services (800.656.HOPE) and public education to give the public the understanding of sexual violence as a crime. As a matter of fact, colleges and universities provide services like RAINN (Gaiman, 2014). As I will be rooming next year as I attend college, I am very concerned about the safety my school provides. Wells College in Aurora, New York has Ithaca Rape Crisis center Hotline: 607.277.5000 and SAVAR (Sexual Assault Victim’s Advocate Resource) Hotline: 315.252.2112 (Wells College, 2016).These hotlines provide resources that can prevent a rape from happening and create a better environment.
Although, some campuses provide helpful resources for this issue, occasionally it won’t help if the school only suspends the attacker and say that it was the victim’s fault. The #DontAcceptRape is a campaign from Goodby Silverstein and Partners. This campaign supports survivors and “hold hundreds of colleges accountable for behavior that's unacceptable.” It’s advertisements and videos bring a bit of mockery and sarcasm towards college acceptance letters. These Unacceptable Acceptance Letters consists of real stories from sexual-assault survivors and true based facts about rape on campus. It raises awareness of sexual assault on campus to give a message that schools should protect their students better. One in five women are sexually assaulted in college and “the first six weeks of college is the period when freshmen have the highest likelihood of being raped.” Ninety-five percent of assaults are unreported and 97% of the rapists never set foot on a jail cell not even for a second. Eight in ten survivors of rape and sexual assault knew their attacker and it is every 21 hours that someone is raped in an American college campus. IF THEY ACCEPT YOU, DON’T ACCEPT THEM (Sprankle, 2016).
Besides on college campus, rape also occurs on military armed forces and it proves that rape crime crime, as it accumulates over time, it happens anywhere, which makes anybody feel unsafe. In 2012, out of the 1,427,490 total members of the armed services there were 26,000 estimated victims of unwanted sexual contact. Of these estimated victims, 14,000 were males and 12,000 were females (NSVRC, 2016). A majority of these forced sexual contact go unreported and silenced.