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April is observed as Sexual Assault Prevention & Awareness Month. This initiative was officially declared in 2001 by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, with the purpose of unifying state coalitions, college campuses, and community organizations in their efforts to end all forms of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Individuals and communities come together during this month to honor the grassroots activism that has led to systemic change in the way we recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual violence, while also advancing education and social change around present-day challenges related to this public health issue.
Sexual assault is a type of interpersonal violence that someone can experience at any point in the life course – as a child, adolescent, young adult, adult, or as an elder. It includes but is not limited to:
- Rape and statutory rape
- Fondling or unwanted sexual touching
- Sexual exploitation, including sex trafficking
- Forcing or coercing someone to perform sexual acts
In the most recent Association of American Universities Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct (2019), we know the following from students across participating universities and at Texas A&M who participated:
Student Life has observed this initiative for over two decades, by stewarding prevention education and awareness programming that reflects the necessary practices called upon by national organizations, educators, public health professionals, and advocates.
See the calendar of events and programs at tx.ag/SAPAM.
The resources below are available to help you build your knowledge during the month of April and throughout the year.
Books
Resources
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary archive of digitized scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and general and biological sciences but continues to grow.
Published by: JSTOR - Women and Social Movements in the US 1600-2000-Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new windowWomen and Social Movements (Scholar's Edition) includes projects, full text documents, well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Search by social movements, authors, sources, and more.
Alternate titles: WASM; Women & social movements in the United States
Published by: Alexander Street Press
- Child Abuse and NeglectISSN: 0145-2134
Child Abuse & Neglect is an international and interdisciplinary journal publishing articles on child welfare, health, humanitarian aid, justice, mental health, public health and social service systems. The journal recognizes that child protection is a global concern that continues to evolve. Accordingly, the journal is intended to be useful to scholars, policymakers, concerned citizens, advocates, and professional practitioners in countries that are diverse in wealth, culture, and the nature of their formal child protection system. - Violence and VictimsISSN: 0886-6708
Violence and Victims is a peer-reviewed journal featuring cutting-edge and evidence-based studies of theory, research, policy, and clinical practice related to all forms and types of interpersonal violence and victimization. Committed to the idea that interpersonal violence and victimization requires a broad-based understanding inadequately addressed by focusing upon a single type of abuse or the contributions of any one discipline, Violence and Victims features international and interdisciplinary contributions from a variety of professional disciplines such as psychology, psychiatry, sociology, criminology, law, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, and social work. - Violence Against WomenISSN: 1077-8012
Violence Against Women (VAW) peer-reviewed and published 16 times a year, is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. VAW assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infanticide, female genital cutting (FGC), and female sexual slavery. - Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceISSN: 0886-2605
Journal of Interpersonal Violence (JIV) is devoted to the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence, addressing the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of all types of violence. It provides a forum of discussion for the concerns and activities of professionals and researchers working in domestic violence, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, physical child abuse, and other violent crime. - Trauma, Violence & AbuseISSN: 1552-8324
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (TVA), peer-reviewed and published five times a year, is a review journal devoted to organizing, synthesizing, and expanding knowledge on all forms of trauma, abuse, and violence. Dedicated to professionals and advanced students, TVA is intended to compile knowledge that clearly affects practice, policy, and research. TVA publishes only reviews of research and law review articles. Reviewed literatures may come from the social or behavioral sciences or the law. - Violence and GenderISSN: 2326-7836
Violence and Gender is the only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the role of gender in the understanding, prediction, and prevention of acts of violence. The Journal is the international forum for the critical examination of biological, genetic, behavioral, psychological, racial, ethnic, and cultural factors as they relate to the gender of perpetrators of violence. Through peer-reviewed research, roundtable discussions, case studies, and other original content, Violence and Gender explores the difficult issues that are vital to threat assessment and prevention of the epidemic of violence.
Online Communities for Learning, Support, and Resource
- End Rape on Campus
@endrapeoncampus on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
End Rape on Campus (EROC) works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels. - National Sexual Violence Resource Center
@nsvrc on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
NSVRC provides research & tools to advocates working on the frontlines to end sexual harassment, assault, and abuse with the understanding that ending sexual violence also means ending racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression. - Man Enough
@wearemanengough on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Man Enough is a movement founded on the belief that by undefining traditional roles and traits of masculinity, men will be able to realize their potential as humans and their capacity for connection. - me too.
@metoomvmt on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Shifting the narrative about sexual violence is critical to interrupting its dynamics. See how we work to reframe survivorhood, healing, and the future of the movement. - It’s On Us
@itsonus on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
The mission of It’s On Us is to build the movement to combat campus sexual assault by engaging all students, including young men, and activating the largest student organizing program of its kind in grassroots awareness and prevention education programs. - Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN))
@rainn01 on Facebook; @rainn on Instagram and Twitter
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice. - Futures Without Violence
@futureswithoutviolence on Instagram and Facebook; @withoutviolence on Twitter
For more than 30 years, FUTURES has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. - Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
@incitecommunitynews on Facebook; @incitenews on Twitter
INCITE! is a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities. - National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
@niwrc on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
Providing national leadership to end violence against American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian women by lifting up the collective voices of grassroots advocates and offering culturally grounded resources, technical assistance and training, and policy development to strengthen tribal sovereignty. - Community United Against Violence
@cuav_sf on Instagram; @cuav on Twitter
Community United Against Violence (CUAV) supports the healing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people that have experienced violence and abuse by other people and /or institutions.
Podcasts
This Research Guide is made in collaboration with University Health Promotions. The resources highlighted and listed have been vetted by The University Health Promotions and Libraries staff and are meant to help provide accurate and helpful information surrounding the topic of the guide for all Aggies to access and use.