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Peer Education

Does Focusing on Male Responsibility Change Sexual Assault Attitudes?

University of California, Los Angeles

SARAH WELCHANS

University of Michigan

A peer education program emphasizing male responsibility in decreasing sexual assault led to a decrease in rape tolerant attitudes among high school students immediately following a 45-minute presentation. Trained high school students presented information on sexual assault risk reduction, rape culture, sexual assault law, how to help a friend who has been assaulted, and male responsibility in preventing sexual assault. Whereas the scores of female students showed less acceptance of rape myths and victim-blaming attitudes than males at both pretest and posttest, the attitudes of male students showed more improvement following the presentation than those of the females.

Violence Against Women, Vol. 6, No. 11, 1255-1268 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/10778010022183622


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