One quarter of Aussies aged 18 to 24 admit to sexual violence
One in four Australians aged 18-24 have admitted to carrying out sexually violent acts, a disturbing report has revealed.
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One in four Australians aged 18-24, and one in five aged 18 to 45, have admiited to carrying out sexually violent acts since turning 18, a disturbing report has revealed.
The findings from the Australian Institute of Criminology also revealed one in 14 of the 5000 people surveyed had perpetrated sexual violence in the past 12 months.
The report revealed that men were more like than women to commit all forms of sexual violence and to do so more frequently.
Pressuring people into sexual activity, emotionally and psychologically manipulating them into having sex, forcibly kissing and touching were some of the most common forms of sexual violence according to the research.
Other forms of violence including pressuring someone into having unprotected sex, image based abuse like taking intimate photos without consent and rape were also reported in the study.
“The estimates in this study are drawn on self-reported data and may overcome many of the issues inherent in official data held by police and criminal justice agencies, which have been relied upon to gauge the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration in Australia,” deputy director Dr Rick Brown said.
“Perpetrators who have contact with the criminal justice system represent only a small proportion of those who have perpetrated sexual violence.
“The vast majority of offences and perpetrators are never reported to police, and attrition rates are high among cases of sexual violence that do come to the attention of police, meaning few actually progress to prosecution and conviction.
“These findings fill an important gap in the Australian evidence base, while also contributing to efforts to monitor and evaluate approaches to reducing sexual violence by providing more accurate estimates of its rate of perpetration,” said Dr Brown.
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