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Author Matthews, Miriam (Behavioral scientist), author.

Title Organizational characteristics associated with risk of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. Army / Miriam Matthews [and five others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2021.

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  D 101.2:SE 9    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 89 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Research report ; RR-A1013-1
Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-A1013-1.
Note "Prepared for the United States Army."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Approach to Estimating Sexual Assault Risk and Sexual Harassment Risk in the Army -- Sexual Assault Risk Results -- Sexual Harassment Risk Results -- Discussion and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Technical Modeling Details -- Appendix B: Adjusted Installation Sexual Assault Risk from 2014 to 2018 -- Appendix C: All Risk Estimates for All Clusters -- Appendix D: Classification of Career Management Fields.
Summary Extending previous RAND analyses, researchers found variation in total sexual assault risk-estimated prevalence of sexual assault-across groups of soldiers. For example, Army women at Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, and several other bases face total sexual assault risk that is higher than the risk faced by the average woman in the Army. Sexual harassment is more common than sexual assault, but the results also showed that risk of sexual harassment is highly associated with risk of sexual assault. Thus, bases with high sexual assault risk also have high sexual harassment risk. One question is whether groups with higher risk estimates simply have soldiers assigned to them who are at higher risk because of their individual characteristics (e.g., younger, unmarried), or whether personnel in those groups would experience lower risk if stationed elsewhere. To evaluate this, researchers calculated adjusted risk: This measures how much higher or lower than expected the risk of sexual assault is for a group of soldiers. Army women at Fort Hood had an adjusted sexual assault risk of 1.7 percent during 2018, indicating that their risk was 1.7 percent higher than expected based on the characteristics of women assigned there. Several characteristics were associated with different levels of adjusted risk for Army women's sexual assault and sexual harassment and for men's sexual harassment, including positive unit or supervisor climate (associated with lower risk) and deployment operational tempo (associated with higher risk). Army women in environments with higher proportions of combat arms have higher adjusted risk.
Note Description based on online resource; title from cover PDF title page (RAND, viewed on Feb. 16, 2022).
Subject Rape in the military -- United States.
Sexual harassment in the military -- United States.
Rape in the military. (OCoLC)fst01911202
Sexual harassment in the military. (OCoLC)fst01747312
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author Rand Corporation, issuing body.
United States. Department of the Army, sponsoring body.
Standard No. 10.7249/RR-A1013-1 doi
Gpo Item No. 0325 (online)
Sudoc No. D 101.2:SE 9/3 D 101.2:SE 9

 
    
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