Racial-Ethnic Differences in Rape & Sexual Assault Victimization

• In Event: Perceptions, Narratives and Patterns of Rape and Sexual Assault

Abstract

There are only a handful of studies of racial and ethnic differences in rape victimization at the national level, and a lot of important questions remain unanswered. The current study responds to existing gaps in knowledge and uses pooled data from the National Crime Victimization Survey for 1994-2010 to answer whether there racial-ethnic differences in the effects and effect patterns of certain sociodemographic variables on the risk of rape/sexual assault victimization.The findings indicate that race and ethnicity is an important predictor for sexual victimization, and there are meaningful racial-ethnic differences in the effects of the predictor factors on the risk of rape and sexual assault. The study sheds light on the effects of contextual factors on racial-ethnic differences in sexual victimization.

Author

• Ekaterina Gorislavsky, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville