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Lifetime and Current Sexual Assault and Harassment Victimization Rates of Active-Duty United States Air Force Women

Deborah J. Bostock

United States Air Force

James G. Daley

Indiana University School of Social Work

From a stratified random sample, 2,018 active-duty United States Air Force women completed a telephone survey dealing with sexual assault and harassment. The lifetime prevalence of rape among Air Force women (28%) was more than twice as high as the prevalence in a national sample (13%). Nearly half of the military sample had been the victims of rape, molestation, or attempted sexual assault. The majority of both initial rapes (75%) and most recent rapes (56%) involved assault by civilians when the victims were civilians. Family members perpetrated 29% of initial rapes and 33% of most recent rapes. Regarding military status of the perpetrator, 14% of first-time victims were raped by a military member, 26% of multiple-time victims were raped by a military member, 31.8% of military women were sexually harassed by a military supervisor or boss, and 26.7% of military women were sexually harassed by a military coworker.

Key Words: military women • sexual assault • sexual harassment • U.S. Air Force

Violence Against Women, Vol. 13, No. 9, 927-944 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801207305232
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