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“A college campus isn’t the first place that comes to mind in a discussion about violent crime.

But research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1 out of 5 college women will be sexually assaulted. NPR’s investigative unit teamed up with journalists at the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) to look at the failure of schools — and the government agency that oversees them — to prevent these assaults and then to resolve these cases.”
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Officials at the University of Colorado know about a pattern of alleged date-rape drug use at a fraternity in Boulder, but say the law prevents them from naming the fraternity to police.
An investigation of sexual assault on college campuses found CU and others colleges across Colorado are withholding information about sexual assaults against students.

   If your image of a rapist is a hooded stranger in a dark alley, think again. The face of most rapists is one their victims recognize.
In almost all sexual assaults – 90 percent, according to the U.S. Justice Department – the attacker is someone the victim knows.

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Privacy Laws Prevent Sex Assault Investigations
Rape Prevention Fails when it’s Focused on the Wrong Rapist
Video: Privacy vs Prosecution

And that means the rape prevention programs of the past 30 years – rape whistles, walking in pairs, staying out …

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Privacy Laws Prevent Sex Assault Investigations
Rape Prevention Fails when it’s Focused on the Wrong Rapist
Video: Privacy vs Prosecution

Mary Friedrichs, who directs the Office of Victim Assistance at the University of Colorado, the District Attorney for Boulder County Stan Garnett and Joanne Belknap, who survived a sexual assault as a student at CU in 1980 and now researchers sexual violence as a professor at CU, discuss the tangle of conflicting priorities between preserving …

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