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Sexual Victimization of Youth in New York City
Research published over the last decade has explored the incidence, prevalence, and consequences of sexual victimization of youth, including attempted and/or completed rape, sexual coercion and harassment, child sexual abuse, and sexual contact with force or threat of force within adolescent acquaintance and dating relationships. Current research reveals that adolescents are more likely to experience sexually violent crimes than any other age group. In New York City, one study found approximately one in four young women aged 14 to 23 experienced an unwanted sexual experience in the past year (Rickert, Wiemann et al. 2004). These findings reveal the urgent need to address the risk factors for experiencing sexual violence, the health and psychosocial implications of victimization, and to increase resources for preventing violence among youth in New York City.
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Columbia University: Third Annual Jeanne Clery Lecture: "Gender-Based Violence as a Bias Crime"Date:Organization: Columbia UniversityProgram: Health Services
Description: Please join us for the Third Annual Jeanne Clery Lecture, featuring Susan Brison, professor of philosophy at Dartmouth and author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of the Self. Professor Brison will address society?s reluctance to view sexual violence against women as an identity-based form of victimization, and how reconceptualizing such violence as a bias crime provides a more thorough understanding of its causes and more useful strategies for working towards its elimination. This event is free and open to the public. DateMarch 12, 2008 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EDT LocationColumbia University ContactFor further information regarding this event, please contact Anna Tekippe by sending email to art2110@columbia.edu, or visit
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Voices and Faces:
Nobuko Nagaoka 
"I guess the thing that I am proudest of is that I didn't turn back, that I'm still here all these years later. I kept going because I had no choice, but I'm glad that I did."
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