Today, there is a lot of talk about sexual harassment but on a college campus, but surprisingly there is more of a risk for college aged students that don’t attend college. This article goes into the statistics-based parts explaining that “female college-aged students (18-24) are 20% less likely than non-students of the same age to be a victim of rape or sexual assault.” That sentence threw me for a loop because all my life I’ve been taught that college is the most dangerous place for a young girl, but along with the danger of being taken advantage of, there’s the danger of being robbed. College women are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted than robbed, but non college women experience 5 robberies for every 4 sexual assaults. The saddest fact is that only 20% of women that are students report to law enforcement. Some of these assaults stem from stalking which 5.8% of students have experienced since going to college. There need to be more done for women and not just students so that we can live in a safe place and not fear that a man is going to come out of the dark and attack us in anyway. Women deserve to be safe and not afraid to go out in fear of being taken advantage of or robbed, hopefully things will change in the world, and it will become safe for us.
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/campus-sexual-violence
I can not believe that non-student females are more likely to experience a sexual assault/rape than those who attend a college. I was told just like you, that college campuses are one of the most dangerous places to be as a young woman. However, I noticed you mentioned that a lot of on-campus sexual assaults/rapes go unreported, so I wonder if the statistics would support our initial assumption that you are more likely to be sexually assaulted as a college student than a non-student of they were to be reported?