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Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?

Jia Tolentino

February 12, 2018 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Researchers at Columbia University undertook an exhaustive ethnography, interviewing hundreds of students on campus to understand the conditions under which sexual assault occurs. The idea was to get past common assumptions about the dynamics of assault and find what strategies might work best to protect all students. Researchers concluded small structural adjustments to student life could bring substantial change, including more mental health services and different types of responses based on the individual students and the types of incidents.

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