The average age of sexual assault is 15 according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Source | Felson, R. B., Cundiff, P. R. (2014). Sexual assault as a crime against young people. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 273-284.
The estimated lifetime cost of rape ($122,461 per survivor) has a population economic burden of nearly $3.1 trillion over survivors’ lifetimes.
Source | Peterson C, DeGue S, Florence C, Lokey CN. Lifetime Economic Burden of Rape Among U.S. Adults. Am J Prev Med. 2017 Jun;52(6):691-701. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.11.014. Epub 2017 Jan 30.
The estimated societal cost of short-term lost productivity is $110 billion due to intimate partner violence, sexual violence, or stalking, across the lifetimes of all survivors.
Source | Cora Peterson, PhD, Yang Liu, PhD, Marcie-jo Kresnow, MS, Curtis Florence, PhD, Melissa T. Merrick, PhD, Sarah DeGue, PhD, and Colby N. Lokey, MS. Short-term Lost Productivity per Victim: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, or Stalking. Am J Prev Med. 2018 July ; 55(1): 106–110.
The number of Latinx people reporting rapes in Houston fell by over 40% in 2017 from the same period in 2016.
There are no legal protections to prevent law enforcement officials from turning survivors of sexual violence over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs.
Source | Southern Poverty Law Center
Those who self-identify as queer have a 266% greater chance of experiencing sexual assault while in custody compared to their heterosexual peers.
Source | Ahlin EM. Risk Factors of Sexual Assault and Victimization Among Youth in Custody. J Interpers Violence. 2018 Feb 1:886260518757226. doi: 10.1177/0886260518757226.
Two thirds of incarcerated women in U.S. jails and prisons are women of color.
U.S. attorneys declined to prosecute 67% of the Indian country matters referred to them involving sexual abuse and related matters between 2005 and 2009.
Source | Indian Law Resource Center
Up to 32% of undergraduate women across 33 universities surveyed reported nonconsensual sexual contact compared to 13% of women overall.
Up to 55% of Asian women report experiencing sexual violence in their lifetime.
Within the transgender and SOFFA (Significant Others, Friends, Family and Allies) community, 74% experienced more than one incidence of sexual violence according to a national survey on sexual violence. Abuse/assault occurred most when survivors were between 0 and 12 years of age and then again between 19 and 21 years old.
Source | The Transgender Sexual Violence Project
Women are 6 times more likely to be victims of elder sexual abuse.
