True or False?
1. Only women can be raped.
2. Rape is a very rare crime.
3. Most victims are raped by someone they know.
4. Victims of rape will “get over it” quickly.
5. It’s only a crime if a weapon was used against the victim.
6. Husbands can’t rape their wives.
7. Most rapes are reported by someone falsely claiming to have been raped.
8. Over 13,000 women are raped at work each year.
1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. False 6. False 7. False 8. True 9. False 10 True 11. False 12. False
1. Fact: In 1994 almost 5000 men & children were victims of rape. National Center for Victims for Crime http://www.ncvc.org/infolink/info38.htm
2. Fact:In the U.S. every 6 minutes a woman is raped. http://www.ou.edu/oupd/trustyor.htm The Police Notebook by the University of Oklahoma, Trust Your Instincts Booklet
3. Fact: In 1994, 64.2% of all rapes &sexual assaults were committed by offenders who were previously known to the victim. http://www.ncvc.org/Infolink/nfolink_frames2.htm National Center For Victims of Crime.
4. Fact: 1/3 of all rape victims will develop raperelated PTSD. National Center For Victims Of Crime http://www.ncvc.org Infolink35
5. Fact: Rape is forced sexual intercourse without the victims consent.
http://studentlife.tamu.edu/gies/default.htm 6. Fact: Husbands can be guilty of rape.Wellesley Centers for Women http://www.wellesley.edu/WCW/projects/
mrape.html
7. Fact: FBI stats show that false rape claims occur only 2% of the time. Which is the same rate as that of other crimes. One In Four http://www.oneinfour.com/facts.php
8. Fact: From 1987-1992, 13, 068 women are raped on the job yearly. Taken from N.I.O.S.H. Nonfatal Assaults in the Workplace.,1994 Table13.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/violnonf.html SOURCES
9. Fact: Eighty-four percent of rapes are not reported to the police.
The Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/rape.htm
10. Fact: Rape is a crime about power & control were sex is used as a weapon against a victim.
11. Fact: Rape victims come in all walks of life. Most people do know a rape victim. They may just not know who it is.
12. Fact: No one deserves to be raped.
