The relationship between sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military : findings from the RAND Military Workplace Study / Terry L. Schell, Matthew Cefalu, Coreen Farris, Andrew R. Morral.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schell, Terry L., 1967- author.

Cefalu, Matthew, author.

Farris, Coreen, author.

Morral, Andrew R., author.

Contributor:

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center.

Rand Corporation.

United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape in the military--United States.

Rape in the military.

Sexual harassment in the military--United States.

Sexual harassment in the military.

Sexual harassment in the military--United States--Statistics.

Soldiers--Crimes against--United States--Statistics.

Soldiers.

United States.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xv, 36 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2021]

Summary:

This report describes analyses designed to identify how the sexual harassment of others in a service member's work environment (or ambient sexual harassment) affects his or her own risk of being sexually assaulted. The authors find that ambient sexual harassment against service women and men is strongly associated with risk of sexual assault, even after controlling for many other sexual assault risk factors (such as age, rank, marital status, and education level). Indeed, on average, service women's sexual assault risk increased by more than a factor of 1.5 when they worked in environments where the rates of ambient sexual harassment against women and men were above average, compared with the sexual assault risk for women working where the rates were below average. And service men's sexual assault risk increased by a factor of 1.8 when working in such environments. The authors conclude that sexual assault and harassment in the military should be thought of as a single problem or as a single underlying workplace disorder. In addition, because work environments in which rates of sexual harassment are high appear to contribute to service members' risk of sexual assault, efforts to prevent sexual assault should emphasize preventing or stopping sexual harassment. Data for these analyses were drawn from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study, an independent assessment of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military.

Contents:

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Data and Methods

Chapter Three: Ambient Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Risk

Chapter Four: Conclusion

Appendix: Smoothing Ambient Sexual Harassment Values for Small Units.

Notes:

"RAND National Defense Research Institute."

"Prepared for the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36).

ISBN:

197740667X

9781977406675

OCLC:

1244507367