Research also shows that about half of sexual assault victims had been drinking. However, this does not mean that drinking causes sexual assault or that the violence is the victim's fault. Many attackers use alcohol as a way to make you drunk and unable to consent, understand what is happen...
CANBERRA, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Reports of sexual assault in Australia reached a six-year high in 2015, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday have shown. The figure represents a 3 percent rise over the previous year, William Milne from the ABS said on ...
CANBERRA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The total number of recorded sexual assault victims in Australia reached an eight-year high in 2017, according to government data. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its annual figures on Thursday evening which showed the number of sexual assault in...
Here we outline the age of consent laws in Australia; sexual assault, sexual act, sexual touching and harassment offences, defences and their penalties; the statutory rape laws in NSW; how alcohol or drugs affect a rape case, rape statistics in Australia, and the various ways your knowledge ...
Sexual assault is perhaps the hardest type of case to win in a court of law—possibly because of rape myths, misconceptions, and juror bias against the...
Sexual assaults create significant health and legislative problems for every society. All healthcare professionals who have the potential to encounter victims of sexual assault should have some understanding of the acute and chronic health problems that
Many people believe that sexual harassment only includes physical assault in the workplace, but sexual harassment can be both physical and non-physical (ILO2015). Some of the examples of sexual harassment in the workplace are unwanted physical contact, sexual jokes, making comments on someone's ...
These statistics are a result of the frequency and sorts of assaults themselves, as well as the various responses that men have when discussing what has happened to them [35,39]. Many studies have noted the difficulty of obtaining reliable and accurate statistics on adult male victimization [...
to engage in sexual activity. Males met online were often a few years older, usually out of high school. Once an online relationship was established, participants reported being pressured to meet face-to-face. Upon meeting in person, participants reported sexual harassment and sexual assault: ...
Different states use the terms “sexual assault” and “sexual abuse” in different ways. Both are typically crimes, though. Sexual abuse is often a sex offense committed on a child, while victims of sexual assault are typically adults. They can also both be the basis for a civil lawsuit ...