How Many Terms Does It Take to Define Sexual Assault? Inconsistencies in U.S. Higher Education Sexual Misconduct Policies.
| Autor: | Papp LJ; Departments of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Levitsky SR; Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Armstrong EA; Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Porter KB; Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Violence against women [Violence Against Women] 2024 Dec; Vol. 30 (15-16), pp. 3970-3990. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 07. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10778012231189477 |
| Abstrakt: | Campus sexual misconduct policies (SMPs) outline prohibited conduct. We sought to document the range of terms used to refer to forms of nonconsensual sexual contact in SMPs and to analyze the content of definitions provided for the term "sexual assault." We coded the 2016-2017 SMPs from a sample of 381 U.S. schools. We identified 125 unique terms and documented both a terminological and conceptual morass around sexual assault. Policy language may have implications for students' and administrators' evaluation of experiences and reports of sexual assault. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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