News tagged with sexual assault
US Army suicides down, sex assaults up
The Pentagon said Thursday the number of suicides in the US Army fell last year for the first time since 2004, but that sexual assaults increased.
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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US redefines rape to count more people as victims
(AP) -- The Obama administration says it is expanding the FBI's more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to reflect a better understanding of the crime and to broaden protections.
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Binge drinking by freshman women tied to sexual assault risk, according to new research
Many young women who steer clear of alcohol while they're in high school may change their ways once they go off to college. And those who take up binge drinking may be at relatively high risk of sexual assault, according ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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WikiLeaks not financially endangered: Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Latin American media that his organization was far from financially endangered despite sanctions slapped on it by the United States.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Intoxication important in determining when some men commit sexual aggression
A new review article published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review assesses the extent to which alcohol plays a causal role in sexual assault perpetration. Results found that men who are already prone to anger, who ha ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Assange blames Guardian for cable dump
The "negligence" of British daily The Guardian led to WikiLeaks releasing its full archive of 250,000 US diplomatic cables, the whistleblowing website's founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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BUSM professor outlines best practices for treating victims of sexual assault
Judith A. Linden, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and vice chair for education in the department of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has written ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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WikiLeaks denies it reveals sources in new US cables
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks denied Tuesday that it has revealed the names of some of the sources in a new batch of US diplomatic cables it has released.
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Gaps in services for sexual assault victims in Texas revealed
A new University of Texas at Austin statewide study reveals significant gaps in services for sexual assault victims and calls for improvements, including additional funding.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Sexually victimized girls with PTSD not more likely to binge drink later
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common outcome of sexual assault among many teenage girls, but they do not necessarily cope by binge drinking, a new study finds. When they occur in these girls, PTSD ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Scandal detracts from serious international business
Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned last week as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amid allegations of sexual assault in New York City — leading to larger questions of how this will affect French politics ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 25, 2011 |
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Crime Victims' Institute studies adolescent sex and laws
While statutory rape laws have been enacted to protect minors from sexual abuse by adults or peers, more teenagers are engaging in sexual activity before the legal age of consent and are facing sexual assault charges.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 24, 2011 |
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Research to target untested rape kits
Researchers at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at Austin will team up with representatives from the criminal justice system in Houston to establish protocols to determine when sexual assault kits ...
May 05, 2011 |
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States seek to make it safer to find love online
(AP) -- Something just didn't seem right when Ilana Angel met her Internet date at a bar. He furtively looked around the room and immediately suggested they go someplace else in his car, leaving hers behind ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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UNL psychologist aims to get to root of 'revictimization' in new study
It's a vicious cycle. Child and adolescent victims of sexual assault are anywhere from two to 11 times more likely to be raped or otherwise sexually assaulted as an adult.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2010 |
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