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-Three out of four womyn will be victims of a violent crime during their lifetime. (Senate Judiciary Committee, 1990). -One in three womyn will be a victim of rape during her lifetime. ("Sexual Assault is Everyone's Problem." D.C. Rape Crisis Center, 1990) -Every hour, 16 womyn confront rapists; every six minutes a woman is raped. (Uniform Crime Report, 1989; National Crime Survey, 1989). -Over the past decade, the rape rate has risen four times as fast as the total crime rate. (U.S. Crime Report, 1989). -The U.S. rape rate is 13 times higher than Great Britain's and 4 times higher than Germany's. (U.S. Department of Justice, 1988). -Less than 40% of rapes result in arrest. (Senate Judiciary Committee, 1990). -Rape rates increased 5.3% from 1983-1988, while arrest of rape increased only 3%. (National Crime Survey, 1989). -The conviction rate for rape is only 3% compared to the conviction rate for robbery, which is 18%. (U.S. Bureau of Justice, 1990). -One study found that victims of rape were 8.7% times as likely as non-victims to have attempted suicide and twice as likely to experience major depression. ("Testimony Before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families," Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D., 1990). -A National Institute on Drug Abuse survey estimated that one-third of all rape victims developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Testimony of Dean Kilpatrick, 1990). -More than 40% of college womyn who have been raped carry the devastating psychological expectation of becoming rape victims again. (Senate Judiciary COmmittee, 1990). -60% to 80% of rapes are date or acquaintance rape. (House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, 1990). -An estimated one in seven married womyn will be raped by their husbands. (House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, 1990). -One in seven college womyn will be raped before they graduate, and 90% will know their attacker (Senate Judiciary Committee, 1990). -One out of twelve college men in a 1988 study admitted that they committed acts that meet the legal definition of rape or attempted rape, but only 1% of them consider the behavior criminal in nature. (University of Florida, 1988).
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