Media bias, ie, slanted news coverage, can strongly impact the public perception of the
reported topics. In the social sciences, research over the past decades has developed …

Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread globally and has myriad adverse health effects
but is vastly underreported. Few studies address the extent of reporting bias in existing …

Some feminists have argued that rape myths constrain women's reporting of sexual assault
to the police. The authors investigated whether myth-associated characteristics of sexual …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) are drivers of women's morbidity
and mortality in urban environments yet remain among the most underreported crimes in the …

The US Department of Justice estimates that between 149,200 and 209,400 incidents of
sexual victimization occur annually in prisons and jails. However, very few individuals …

A prospective methodology was used to explore predictors of sexual assault disclosure
among college women, identify who women tell about sexual victimization, and examine the …

While extensive research has studied sexual assault reporting behaviors and described
negative experiences with the criminal justice system among victim-survivors, fewer studies …

Rape myths affect many aspects of the investigative and criminal justice systems. One such
myth, the 'real rape'myth, states that most rapes involve a stranger using a weapon attacking …

On November 1, 1999, the National Institute of Justice awarded a grant to Education
Development Center, Inc., and its partners (University of Cincinnati and Police Executive …

As research continues to describe negative experiences and high case attrition within
sexual assault cases reported to the police, it is important to better understand the role of first …