FROM “NO MEANS NO” TO COMMUNITY CHANGE: The Impact of University-Based Service Learning Related to Intimate Violence Prevention
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Document Type
Contribution to a Book
Publication Title
Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning
DOI
10.4324/9781003444985-15
First Page
181
Last Page
200
Abstract
Intimate violence is a major public health problem in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2005;Melton, 2002). Nearly 25% of American women report having been raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Consistently, young women between the ages of 16 and 24 make up the group most at risk for intimate abuse (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Of teens enrolled in grades 9 through 12, 9.1% of girls report having been physically assaulted and 21.3% sexually assaulted (Smith, White, & Holland, 2003). By the time they graduate from college, up to one in four women report having been sexually assaulted (Brener, McMahon, Warren, & Douglas, 1999; Fisher, Cullen & Turner, 2000; Koss, 1993). Women who were sexually and physically victimized in high school are at significantly greater risk for physical and sexual victimization in their undergraduate years (Smith, White, & Holland, 2003). Further, youth who have been exposed to or experienced intimate violence are far more likely to become involved in abusive relationships as adults (Carr & VanDeusen, 2002; Frias-Armenta, 2002; Widom & Maxfield, 2001). According to the CDC, nearly two million injuries and 1,300 deaths result from intimate violence annually (CDC, 2003).
Department
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Elena Klaw and Marilyn C. Ampuero. "FROM “NO MEANS NO” TO COMMUNITY CHANGE: The Impact of University-Based Service Learning Related to Intimate Violence Prevention" Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning (2023): 181-200. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003444985-15
