Military studies Sexual assault in the military| Ethical dilemma or national security issue? GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Gregory C. Havrilak DiehlRobyn AWomen have fought for equality in society and despite making great strides there is still a level of inequality within specific areas of the United ...
“That change was largely due to the perception that when a military commander makes these makes these prosecution decisions, that they are not expert attorneys in these cases,” Dr. Nate Galbreath, deputy director of DoD’s Sexual Assault and Prevention Office, told reporte...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by a dramatic increase in reported sexual assaults in the military, defense leaders said Thursday they want to beef up prevention, but they are struggling to find people to hire and are still developing programs they think can work, after nearly two decades ...
Sexual assault is often under-reported in all areas of society, including the military. To get a sense of the total number of victims, including those who choose not to report, every two years, the U.S. Department of Defense estimates the number of sexual assault victims in t...
The Pentagon and the military services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting. While the military has made inroads in making it easier and safer for service members to come forward, it has had far less success reducing the assaults,...
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Xinhua) -- As many as 6,769 sexual assault cases in the U.S. military were reported in fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, 2017, up about 10 percent from 6,172 reported in the previous year, according to a Pentagon annual report released on Monday. ...
Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out ofpandemicrestrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned.Mirroring the increase in those reports is the ...
Earlier this year, the Associated Press found thatreports of sexual assaults at the three military academies surgedby more than 50 percent in the 2014-15 school year, and complaints of sexual harassment also spiked. Gillibrand's report could strike nerves on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon. ...
After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults — and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so — a Defense Departmentstudyreleased Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the...
Military sexual assault is a pervasive problem throughout the military services, despite numerous initiatives to end it. No doubt the military's lack of progress stems from the complexity of sexual assaults, yet in order to develop effective strategies and programs to end sexual assault, deep und...