An estimated 50% of transgender people experience sexual violence at some point in their lifetimes.
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James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality.
Annually, rape costs the U.S. more than any other crime ($127 billion), followed by assault ($93 billion), murder ($71 billion), and drunk driving, including fatalities ($61 billion).
As many as 6 in 10 migrant women and girls experience sexual violence.
Bisexual women experience the highest rate of sexual assault than any other group, according to a 2019 study by the American Psychology Association on nonconsensual pornography victimization.
Black people who are incarcerated are more likely to experience sexual assault by prison staff than white people who are incarcerated.
Source | Wolff, N., Shi, J., Blitz, C. L. (2008). Racial and ethnic disparities in types and sources of victimization inside prison. The Prison Journal, 88, 451-472.
Black women are more likely to have weapons used in their assaults when compared with white women (42.6% vs. 16.7%) and to be assaulted in the city rather than the suburbs (82.8% vs. 56.5%).
Source | Boykins AD, Alvanzo AA, Carson S, Forte J, Leisey M, Plichta SB. Minority women victims of recent sexual violence: disparities in incident history. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2010 Mar;19(3):453-61. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2009.1484.
Childhood sexual abuse increases the likelihood of sexual offending by 467%.
Source | DeLisi, M., Kosloski, A. E., Vaughn, M. G., Caudill, J. W., Trulson, C. R. (2014). Does childhood sexual abuse victimization translate into juvenile sexual offending? New evidence. Violence and Victims, 29, 620-635.
Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students are more likely to experience negative sexual experiences than hearing students.
Source | Violence and Victims, Vol 32, Issue 6 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00052
Fewer than 1 in 10 women who experienced rape while in college or university reported it to the police.
Source | Fisher, Cullen & Turner, "The Sexual Victimization of College Women," National Research Report funded by NIJ
Girls aged 14-17 have the highest rates of sexual assault among youth populations.
Source | Finkelhor, D., Turner, H. A., Shattuck, A., Hamby, S. L. (2013). Violence, crime, and abuse exposure in a national sample of children and youth: An update. JAMA Pediatrics, 167, 614-621.
Girls placed in foster care have a 67% lifetime prevalence of sexual abuse.
Source | Mendle, J., Leve, L. D., Van Ryzin, M., Natsuaki, M. N., Ge, X. (2011). Associations between early life stress, child maltreatment, and pubertal development among girls in foster care. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 871-880.
Having sexually-explicit image(s) shared without consent resulted in significantly worse mental health outcomes and higher levels of physiological problems than those who had not.
