Correlates of rape while intoxicated in a national sample of college women.

Mohler‐Kuo, Meichun; Dowdall, George W.; Koss, Mary P.; Wechsler, Henry

doi:10.15288/jsa.2004.65.37

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“…3,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Alcohol use is culturally and socially accepted during the transition from high school to college. 2 Numerous studies show that late adolescence and early adulthood are the peak time for heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems, along with other substance use and other risky and illegal behaviors.…”

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Protective Behaviors and High-Risk Drinking Among Entering College Freshmen

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Objectives-To explore the use of protective behaviors to reduce risks associated with alcohol consumption among adolescents during the summer preceding college enrollment.Methods-Survey data were collected in fall 2006 and 2007 that assessed demographic characteristics, drinking behaviors, and use of protective behaviors in the 3 months preceding the survey.Results-Female participants reported using 4 out of 10 protective behaviors more often than did males, and using protective behaviors was significantly related to fewer negative drinking-related consequences.Conclusions-Findings highlight potential benefits of using protective behaviors and the need to promote effective behaviors. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptAm J Health Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 June 26. High-risk drinking among college students has been recognized as a significant public health problem. Four of 5 college students drink alcohol, and half of these engage in heavy episodic drinking. 1 -5 The consequences of high-risk drinking are numerous and undesirable.High-risk drinking among college students has been associated with greater likelihood of negative consequences such as physical and sexual assault, health problems, unsafe and unplanned sexual activity, sexual harassment, impaired sleep and study time, and interpersonal problems. 3,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Alcohol use is culturally and socially accepted during the transition from high school to college. 2 Numerous studies show that late adolescence and early adulthood are the peak time for heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems, along with other substance use and other risky and illegal behaviors. [18][19][20] High school students intending to go to college have lower rates of alcohol and other substance use compared to their noncollege-bound peers. However, in the years immediately following high school, college students have higher rates of alcohol use and frequent heavy drinking, even though they have lower rates of other substance use. [19][20][21] This period of initiation and accelerated use is an important time to intervene, as it can affect long-term use and lifelong difficulties. 22 Much of the increase in alcohol use has been attributed to major individual (eg, alcohol expectancies, perceptions of drinking norms) and contextual changes (eg, decreased parental monitoring) that adolescents experience during this transition period. 23,24 White and colleagues found that leaving home and going to college were significantly associated with increased frequency of alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking during the time between high school and emerging adulthood. 24 The increase in high-risk drinking among incoming college students has been attributed to decreases in parental monitoring and perceptions of drinking norms among college students.Harford et al examined the associations between type of residence, heavy episodic drinking in high school, and alcohol-related problems among college students. 25 Students living off campus wi...

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“…In sexual assault and rape cases 1 , especially, victims and perpetrators are likely to be under the ALCOHOL AND REMEMBERING SEXUAL ASSAULT 4 influence of alcohol (Brecklin & Ullman, 2002;Mohler-Kuo, Dowdall, Koss & Wechsler, 2004;Testa, 2002). Importantly, intoxicated sexual assault victims are less likely than their sober counterparts to report the offense to the police (e.g., Clay-Warner & Burt, 2005; WolitzkyTaylor et al, 2011).…”

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Alcohol and remembering a hypothetical sexual assault: Can people who were under the influence of alcohol during the event provide accurate testimony?

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We examined the influence of alcohol on remembering an interactive hypothetical sexual assault scenario in the laboratory using a balanced placebo design. Female participants completed a memory test 24 hours and 4 months later. Participants reported less information (i.e., responded 'don't know' more often to questions) if they were under the influence of alcohol during scenario encoding. The accuracy of the information intoxicated participants reported did not differ compared to sober participants, however, suggesting intoxicated participants were effectively monitoring the accuracy of their memory at test.Additionally, peripheral details were remembered less accurately than central details, regardless of intoxication level; and memory accuracy for peripheral details decreased by a larger amount compared to central details across the retention interval. Finally, participants were more accurate if they were told they were drinking alcohol rather than a placebo. We discuss theoretical implications for alcohol myopia and memory regulation, together with applied implications for interviewing intoxicated witnesses.Keywords: Alcohol myopia, sexual assault, memory monitoring and control, hypervigilance, intoxication Alcohol and remembering a hypothetical sexual assault: Can victims who were under the influence of alcohol during the offense provide accurate testimony?Serious violent offenses often involve intoxicated witnesses and victims (Evans, Schreiber Compo, & Russano, 2009;Palmer, Flowe, Takarangi, & Humphries, 2013). In sexual assault and rape cases 1 , especially, victims and perpetrators are likely to be under the ALCOHOL AND REMEMBERING SEXUAL ASSAULT 4 influence of alcohol (Brecklin & Ullman, 2002;Mohler-Kuo, Dowdall, Koss & Wechsler, 2004;Testa, 2002). Importantly, intoxicated sexual assault victims are less likely than their sober counterparts to report the offense to the police (e.g., Clay-Warner & Burt, 2005; WolitzkyTaylor et al., 2011). However, even among simple rape cases-involving acquaintances, no collateral injury, or no weapon use-that are reported and referred for prosecution, charges are less likely to be issued if the victim was drinking (Beichner & Spohn, 2012).Alcohol intoxication raises questions about the accuracy of testimony in the minds of criminal investigators (Cole & Logan, 2010). Similar concerns can also influence trial outcomes: Jurors (e.g., Evans & Schreiber Compo, 2010) and eyewitness experts (Kassin, Tubb, Hosch, & Memon, 2001) agree that intoxicated witnesses suffer memory impairment.But, can intoxicated people provide accurate information in legal settings? In the present study, we focused on alcohol and memory impairment in the sexual assault context. Our aims were twofold: we tested whether being under the influence of alcohol, or believing that one has consumed alcohol, would (1) differentially affect the quantity of information women reported about a simulated sexual assault, and (2) interact with other factors to influence the accuracy of women's memory for the sexu...

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“…These include drunken driving (Hingson et al, 2003b), violence (Wechsler et al, 1995), vandalism and related disturbances (Wechsler et al, 2002), sexual activity that is forced (Mohler-Kuo et al, 2004) or risky (Hingson et al, 2003a), and reduced academic performance (Kremer and Levy, 2003). Efforts that most effectively limit external binge drinking effects depend in part on whether fraternities increase binge drinking.…”

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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

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This paper examines the relationship that social fraternity and sorority membership has with binge drinking incidence and frequency among 18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To net out unobserved heterogeneity, several measures of situational and total alcohol use are entered into the regressions as explanatory variables. Fraternity membership coefficients are substantially reduced in size, but remain large and highly significant, suggesting a causal effect on binge drinking. Otherwise, the estimates identify idiosyncratic selection into fraternities and binge drinking across students with similar overall drinking profiles. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship.* Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN 3403, Tampa, FL 33620-5500; Phone: (813) 974-6514; E-mail: jdesimon@coba.usf.edu. I thank Joseph Newhouse and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions.

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Correlates of rape while intoxicated in a national sample of college women.

Cited by 412 publications

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Protective Behaviors and High-Risk Drinking Among Entering College Freshmen

Protective Behaviors and High-Risk Drinking Among Entering College Freshmen

Alcohol and remembering a hypothetical sexual assault: Can people who were under the influence of alcohol during the event provide accurate testimony?

Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

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