Sexual Violence Issues in the Military

#SAAM: SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE MOBILE TRAINING TEAMS READYING FOR DEPLOYMENT, Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Navy, Virginia Beach, VA: July 12, 2012.

2004 SEXUAL HARASSMENT SURVEY OF RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS, Defense Manpower Data Center, U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington, VA: December 23, 2005.

Air Force General Counsel Delivers Report on Sexual Assaults at Academy, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC: June 19, 2003.

Army GENERAL: DON'T HOBBLE COMMANDERS IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES, Lauren French, Reuters, Washington, DC: August 6, 2012. Copyright © 2012 Thomson Reuters.

Army Updates Sexual Assault Policy, Shaun Herron, Army News Service, November 23, 2004. Visit the Army Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program.

BRIEFING PAPER: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANNUAL REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY, FISCAL YEAR 2011, Service Women's Action Network, New York, NY: April 13, 2012.

BUREAUCRACY HAS BLOSSOMED IN MILITARY'S WAR ON RAPE, Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor, Stars and Stripes, Bellingham, WA: December 3, 2011. Copyright © 2011 McClatchy Newspapers.

BYSTANDER INTERVENTION PILOT, U.S. Department of the Navy, Washington, DC: April 2011.

a CALL FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HONORABLE LEON PANETTA, ON THE NEED TO FIX HOW RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IS HANDLED IN THE MILITARY, Nancy Parrish and Greg Jacob, Protect Our Defenders, Burlingame, CA and Service Women's Action Network, New York, NY: December 29, 2011.

A CALL TO ACTION: THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MUST SUPPORT VICTIMS OF RAPE AND HOLD OFFENDERS ACCOUNTABLE, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, February 24, 2011.

CARING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT PATIENTS IN THE MILITARY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (abstract), Cynthia T. Ferguson, Journal of Forensic Nursing (volume 4 [4], pages 190-198), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., December 2008. Copyright © 1999-2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

COMMANDER'S CHECKLIST FOR PREVENTION AND RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS OF Sexual Assault, The Navy Fleet and Family Support Center.

CoPING WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT: A RESOURCE GUIDE AND OVERVIEW OF SAPR POLICIES FOR MILITARY VICTIMS, Terri Spahr Nelson, TSNelson.com, Oxford, OH: 2007.

Defense Department Briefing on Task Force Report on Care OF VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, David S. C. Chu and Ellen P. Embrey, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: May 13, 2004.

Defense FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SUPPLEMENT; DEFINITION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, CASE 2010-D023 (scroll down), Federal Register (volume 76 [125], pages 38051-38052), Washington, DC: June 29, 2011.

DOCUMENT RETENTION IN CASES OF RESTRICTED AND UNRESTRICTED REPORTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT (DTM # 11-062), U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: December 16, 2011.

DOD Announces New Policy on Prevention and Response to Sexual Assault (transcript from news briefing), U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: January 4, 2005. See the DOD charts from news briefing.

DOD ANNUAL REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, Washington, DC.

FY 2012 Report (Volume I and II reports and Executive Summary), April 15, 2013.

FY 2011 Report, April 2012.

FY 2010 Report, March 2011.

FY 2009 (Report, Accomplishments and Summary), March 2010.

FY 2008 (Report and Case Synopses), March 2009.

FY 2007 Report, March 2008.

FY 2006 Report, March 2007.

FY 2005 Report, March 2006.

FY 2004 Report, May 2005.

DOD ANNUAL REPORT ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE AT THE U.S. MILITARY SERVICE ACADEMIES, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC.

Academic Program Year 2011-2012 Report, December 2012.

Academic Program Year 2010-2011 Report, December 2011.

Academic Program Year 2009-2010 Report, December 2010.

Academic Program Year 2008-2009 Report, December 2009.

Academic Program Year 2007-2008 Report, December 16, 2008.

Academic Program Year 2006-2007 Report, December 7, 2007.

Academic Program Year 2005-2006 Report, December 21, 2006.

DOD ESTABLISHES ADDITIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT HOT LINE, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: March 4, 2004.

DOD EVALUATES SEXUAL HARASSMENT & VIOLENCE PROGRAMS AT MILITARY SERVICE ACADEMIES, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: December 18, 2009.

DOD RELEASES ANNUAL SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE AND PREVENTION REPORT, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: March 16, 2010. FY 2009 Annual Report to Congress.

DOD Releases Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at Service Academies, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: August 25, 2005.

DOD SEXUAL ASSAULT TASK FORCE LEAD APPOINTED, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: February 13, 2004.

DOD TASK FORCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT SUBMITS FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: December 4, 2009. See the Report of the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services, December 2009.

EFFECTS OF MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA, Make the Connection, Washington, DC.

eXCLUSIVE: 1 IN 5 AIR FORCE WOMEN VICTIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, SURVEY FINDS, Anna Mulrine, The Christian Science Monitor, Washington, DC: March 17, 2011. Copyright © 2011 The Christian Science Monitor.

EXPEDITED TRANSFER OF MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS WHO FILE UNRESTRICTED REPORTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT (DTM # 11-063), U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: December 16, 2011.

Factors Associated with Women’s Risk of Rape in the Military Environment, Anne G. Sadler, et al, American Journal of Industrial Medicine (volume 43, issue 3), Hoboken, NJ: February 19, 2003. Copyright © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Interim Report on the United States Air Force Academy Sexual Assault Survey, Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington, VA: September 11, 2003.

LAUREN ~ season 1 (videos), directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, WIGS.

"The Report" (Episode 1), August, 13, 2012.

"The Third Man" (Episode 2), August 15, 2012.

"The Suck" (Episode 3), August 17, 2012.

Military COMMISSION HOLDS FORUM ON Sexual Assault, C-SPAN, Washington, DC: January 11, 2013. Copyright © 2013 National Cable Satellite Corporation.

Military Culture and Sexual Assault Victims, Connections, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Olympia, WA: Fall-Winter 2005.

MILITARY JUSTICE ~ OVERSIGHT AND BETTER COLLABORATION NEEDED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATIONS AND ADJUDICATIONS, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC: June 2011.

MILITARY PERSONNEL: ADDITIONAL ACTIONS ARE NEEDED TO STRENGTHEN DOD'S AND THE COAST GUARD'S SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE PROGRAMS, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC: February 3, 2010.

MILITARY PERSONNEL ~ THE DOD AND COAST GUARD ACADEMIES HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO ADDRESS INCIDENTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT, BUT GREATER FEDERAL OVERSIGHT IS NEEDED, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC: January 2008.

MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES, Invisible No More, Los Angeles, CA: 2012.

MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA, PTSD Research Quarterly (volume 20, number 2), National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, VT: Spring 2009.

MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA, Quick Series Publishing.

MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA / SEXUAL TRAUMA RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT RESOURCES, list produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Mental Health Services, Washington, DC: updated October 2010.

MILITARY STEPS UP BATTLE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT, Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: February 25, 2010.

NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH ~ APRIL 2005, Charles S. Abell, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: April 6, 2005.

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH FOLLOWING MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT (scroll down), Coreen Farris, Terry L. Schell and Terri Tanielian, Occasional Paper, RAND National Defense Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA. Copyright © 2013 RAND.

POLICY STATEMENT ~ MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT, the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Washington, DC: May 17, 2013.

Prevalence of In-Service and Post-Service Sexual Assault among Combat and Noncombat Veterans Applying for Department of Veterans Affairs Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Disability Benefits, Maureen Murdoch, et al, Military Medicine, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Bethesda, MD: May 2004. Copyright © 2004 Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

RECENT CHANGES RELATING TO RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND OTHER SEXUAL OFFENSES (10 USC § 920, Art. 120), Uniform Code of Military Justice, October 1, 2007.

REP. SPEIER CONDEMNS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY (video), Service Women's Action Network, New York, NY: April 6, 2011. Note: Please be warned that the video contains highly graphic content that may be triggering or re-traumatizing for survivors or viewers.

The Report Concerning the Assessment of USAF Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC: August 2004.

REPORT OF THE DEFENSE TASK FORCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY SERVICES, DECEMBER 2009.

Report on the Service Academy Sexual Assault and Leadership Survey, Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington, VA: March 4, 2005.

Reports of Sexual Assault in All Military Divisions, Ms., Liberty Media for Women, Arlington, VA: Fall 2004.

SANE TEAM HIGHLY TRAINED TO CARE FOR Sexual Assault VICTIMS (page 7), Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC: January-March 2010.

THE SAPR SOURCE NEWSLETTER, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, Arlington, VA.

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Service Academy 2005 Sexual Harassment and Assault Survey, Defense Manpower Data Center, U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington, VA: December 2005.

SeXUAL ASSAULT ~ WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT (poster), U.S. Navy, Washington, DC: 2012. Download high resolution poster.

Service WOMEN'S ACTION NETWORK RESPONDS TO DEFENSE SECRETARY LEON PANETTA ANNOUNCEMENT TO REDUCE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY, Service Women's Action Network, New York, NY: January 18, 2012.

Sexual Assault IN THE MILITARY, Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc., East Hartford, CT: 2009.

SEXUAL ASSAULT IN WOMEN VETERANS: AN EXAMINATION OF PTSD RISK, HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION, AND COST OF CARE, Alina Surís, Lisa Lind, T. Michael Kashner, Patricia D. Borman and Frederick Petty, Psychosomatic Medicine (volume 66, pages 749-756), 2004. Copyright © 2004 American Psychosomatic Society.

Sexual Assault PREVENTION AND RESPONSE (SAPR) PROGRAM PROCEDURES (DoDI 6495.02), U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: March 28, 2013.

Sexual Assault VICTIM INTERVENTION (SAVI) PROGRAM (OPNAV Instruction 1752.1B), J.C. Harvey, Jr., U.S. Department of the Navy, Washington, DC: December 29, 2006.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE AT THE U.S. MILITARY SERVICE ACADEMIES, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: December 20, 2012.

Sexual Misconduct at Army, Navy Academies Persists, Report Finds, Daniel Pulliam, Govexec.com, August 29, 2005. Copyright © 2005 National Journal Group, Inc.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE MILITARY, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Enola, PA and the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, Harrisburg, PA: September 2011.

STRATEGIC DIRECTION TO THE JOINT FORCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC: May 7, 2012.

STRENGTHENING MILITARY-CIVILIAN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS TO RESPOND TO SEXUAL ASSAULT, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, Enola, PA: 2008.

SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY SYSTEM, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Sacramento, CA: 2010.

Task Force Report on Sexual Assault Policies, U.S. Department of the Army, Washington, DC: May 27, 2004.

U.S. MILITARY SEX-ABUSE CONVICTIONS IN 2011, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC.

UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO VICTIMS OF Sexual Assault AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE MILITARY ~ AN OVERVIEW, Terri Spahr Nelson.

UNIT REFRESHER TRAINING (PRE- AND POST-DEPLOYMENT) ON THE ARMY’S SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE PROGRAM, U.S. Army, Washington, DC: November 2005.

WHEN RAPE ISN'T LIKE COMBAT: THE DISPARITY BETWEEN COMBAT VETERANS AND VICTIMS OF MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT IN SEEKING BENEFITS FOR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, Ben Kappelman, bdkappelman@suffolk.edu, 2010.

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