New Study Suggests College Rape Prevention Programs Don’t Work: New at Reason

Every year, college campuses across the country conduct sexual assault prevention workshops, courses, and orientation sessions. Yet every year, little research is done on whether these interventions result in fewer sexual assaults. A new article published in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior suggests that sexual assault prevention programs might actually be making the problem worse.

Researchers Neil Malamuth and Mark Huppin, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Daniel Linz of the University of California, Santa Barbara, found growing evidence of a “boomerang effect,” where high-risk men behave more aggressively, not less, after interventions designed to change their behavior, writes Liz Wolfe.

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