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PTK: Bystander Effect

Guide to help with honors in action project on sexual assault and sexual violence.

Keywords

Try these keywords. Make sure to include sexual assault to weed out other types of bystander effects.

bystander and sexual assault

bystander effect and sexual assault

Sexual assault prevention

bystander intervention and sexual assault

harvey weinstein and bystander

Websites

Your Role in Preventing Sexual Assault (RAINN)
Why People Don’t Intervene When They Witness A Sexual Assault, And How We Can Change That (ThinkProgress)
Sexual Violence: Prevention Strategies
From the federal gov't. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Part 2: Sexual harassment from the perspective of bystanders
Australia Human Rights Commission
Bystander-Focused Prevention of Sexual Violence
US Department of Justice

Scholarly Articles

You see but you do not observe: A review of bystander intervention and sexual assault on university campuses
In Aggression and Violent Behavior July 2017 35:13-25
Research Article: RCT Testing Bystander Effectiveness to Reduce Violence
In American Journal of Preventive Medicine May 2017 52(5):566-578
Campus sexual assault: what we know and what we don\\\t
From Independent Review. Fall, 2017, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p257, 12 p.
Bystander Intervention Policies for Campus Sexual Assault Should Be Framed as Civil Rights Programs, and Made Broadly Applicable to All Protected Class Offenses
Law Review. It's a scholarly article written by law professors or law students. Let me know if it won't open for you.
Multi-College Bystander Intervention Evaluation for Violence Prevention.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Mar2016, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p295-302. 8p.
VICTIM PROTECTION OR REVICTIMIZATION: SHOULD COLLEGE DISCIPLINARY BOARDS HANDLE SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIMS?
Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice, 2016/03/01, Vol: 36, p59

News/Magazines Articles