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b) Sexual assault victims need special consideration for administrative separation following an incident.
February 2011
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Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL
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Defense Department Kicks Off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with Campaign, Web Site. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database April 3, 2009.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=32W1860583847&site=ehost-live
Defense Department Releases Sexual Assault Statistics. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database March 17, 2009.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=32W2693630086&site=ehost-live
DoD Evaluates Sexual Harassment & Violence Programs at Military Academies. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database December 18, 2009.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=32W3938482177&site=ehost-live
The complete report is available at
http://www.sapr.mil. For specific information on the Air Force, contact 703-695-0640.
Mount, Mike. Pentagon Sexual Assault Reporting Up among Troops. March 16, 2010.
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/16/military.sexual.assaults/index.html?iref=allsearch
Article from the CNN-US website.
No Fear Act Report. January 2011.
Available online at: http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-110119-051.pdf
Quarterly report
from the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph AFB offers statistics on the number of sexual harassment complaints from 2005 through
Dec. 31, 2010 (1st qtr of Fiscal Year 2011).
Pulliam, Daniel. Defense Officials Release Set of Sexual Assault Policies. Government Executive.com January 4, 2005.
Available online at: http://www.govexec.com/daileyfed/0105/010405p1.htm
Reviews the then new DoD policies designed to improve the system of preventing and responding to sexual assaults in the armed services. Offers a link within the article to a "Summary: DoD Sexual Assault Policy" which provides information on definition, training, collateral misconduct, etc.
Rape and the Military. Contemporary Sexuality 37:8-9 May 2003.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11139364&site=ehost-live
Article discusses the sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy in 2003 and a study from that time concerning sexual assault and the military.
Sexual Harassment, Assault Reports Rise at Service Academies. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database December 15, 2010.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=32W0523206885&site=ehost-live
Task Force (Defense) Seeks Impressions of Response from Sexual Assault Victims. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database March 3, 2009.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=32W3871495601&site=ehost-live
The Trauma of Sexual Assault Treatment, Prevention, and Practice, edited by Jenny Petrak and Barbara Hedge. New York, Wiley, 2002. 354 p.
Available online at: http://www.netlibrary.com/
Search by title to access the book. Netlibrary books are available only to AU students and require an individual account password. Contact Fairchild Research Information Center for assistance.
United States. Department of Defense. Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military. Washington, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, March 2010. 1 vol.
Available online at: http://www.sapr.mil/media/pdf/reports/fy09_annual_report.pdf
Annual report contains a 146 page section from the Department of Defense which offers an overview of the program. Also provides three complete annual reports from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force.
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. News Release No. 1149-10: DoD Evaluates Sexual Harassment and Prevention Response Efforts at the Military Service Academies. December 15, 2010.
Available online at: http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=14141
United States Department of Defense: Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO).
Available online at: http://www.sapr.mil
Official web site of the SAPRO offers resources on research, training, video and audio items, as well as past and present DoD annual reports on sexual assault in the military, information on the law, and access to DoD and separate services directives, instructions, and policies.
United States. Department of the Air Force. Air Force Instruction 36-6001 Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program. September 29, 2008. 55 p.
Available online at: http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI36-6001.pdf
Provides chapters on an overview and functional responsibilities, program execution and training, prevention and response for deployed environment, etc.
United States. Department of the Air Force. Air Force Personnel Center. United States Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program.
Available online at: http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/library/sapr/index.asp
Official web site of the Air Force Personnel Center offers links (on the right) to policies, SARC contacts, the DoD SAPR, national sexual violence resources, and a video of the 2009 AF Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Leadership Summit.
United States. Department of the Army. 2010 Army Posture Statement: Sexual Harassment or Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Program. Washington, Department of the Army, 2010.
Available online at: https://secureweb2.hqda.pentagon.mil/vdas_armyposturestatement/2010/information_papers/Sexual_Harassment_or_Assault_Response_and_Prevention_(SHARP)_Program.asp
Provides information on the current U.S. Army efforts in this area.
Hunter, Mic. Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America's Military. Fort Lee, NJ, Barricade Books, 2007. 355 p.
Chapter 11: Sexual Assault Within the Ranks. Chapter 17: What the Military Can Do to Reduce Sexual Abuse and Secondary Victimization.
Book call no.: 355.1334 H946h
Office of the Inspector General. The Tailhook Report: The Official Inquiry into the Events of Tailhook '91. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1993. 250 p.
Discusses the Navy's Tailhook sexual assault scandal of 1991.
Book call no.: 359.0082 T131
Report of the Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Arlington, VA, Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy, September 2003. 108 p.
This report was the result of the first investigation by an independent body to look at the problem of sexual assault that has plagued the U.S. Air Force Academy since the admission of women in 1976. At the direction of Congress, the Secretary of Defense appointed seven private U.S. citizens with expertise in the proper treatment of sexual assault victims to undertake an investigation and to make recommendations. Like Tailhook, sexual assault problems at the AF Academy are well-known and have led to some of the current prevention and response policies.
Also available online at: http://www.defense.gov/news/Sep2003/d20030922usafareport.pdf
Book call no.: 355.0082 P191r
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Report of the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services. Hearing. 111th Congress, 2nd session, February 3, 2010. Washington, GPO, 2010. 37 p.
Also available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS126882
Book call no.: 355.0082 U581r
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Sexual Assault in the Military: Prevention. Hearing. 111th Congress, 1st session, March 6, 2009. Washington, GPO, 2010. 135 p.
Also available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS125653
Book call no.: 355.0082 U581sc
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Total Force. Final Report of the Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Hearing. 108th Congress, 1st session, September 24, 2003. Washington, GPO, 2004. 208 p.
Provides a historical background for new programs and policies.
Book call no.: 355.0082 U581f
Farrell, Brenda S. Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Strengthen Implementation and Oversight of DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs. Washington, Government Accountability Office, 2008. 13 p.
Offers testimony given to the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives on September 10, 2008. Evaluates the extent to which DoD has implemented a comprehensive sexual assault and response program mandated by Congress in 2004. This report offers 11 recommendations.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA486324
Doc. call no.: M-U 41026-173 no.08-1146T
Farrell, Brenda S. and others. Military Personnel: DoD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Need to Be Further Strengthened. Washington, Government Accountability Office, 2010. 10 p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA514850
Doc. call no.: M-U 41026-173 no.10-405T
Lipari, Rachel N. and Lancaster, Anita R. Armed Forces 2002 Sexual Harassment Survey. Arlington, VA, Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense, November 2003. 1 vol.
Offered for its historical background on the issue, the overall purpose of this report is to document the extent to which service members reported sexual harassment, the details surrounding those events, and the members' perceptions of the effectiveness of policies, training, and programs.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA419817
Doc. call no.: M-U 40867-234b
Report Concerning the Assessment of USAF Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. Washington, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), August 2004. 96 p.
Official 96 page USAF report. Under the section on "Findings", offers information on sexual assault realities in the Air Force, the policy and leadership, education and training, reporting, response, and the AEF/Deployed environment. Also provides a section on "Recommendations" that cover these same areas.
Also available online at: http://www.dtic.mil/dacowits/agendadoc/USAF_Sexual_Assault_p_r.pdf
Doc. call no.: M-U 42992-247
United States. Government Accountability Office. Military Personnel: Additional Actions Are Needed to Strengthen DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs. Washington, Government Accountability Office, February 2010. 60 p.
A GAO report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives. Evaluates the extent to which DoD has developed its sexual assault programs and has addressed GAO's 2008 recommendations.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA514844
Doc. call no.: M-U 41026-173 no.10-215
United States. Government Accountability Office. Military Personnel: DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges: Report to Congressional Requesters. Washington, Government Accountability Office, August 2008. 124 p.
Also available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS105241
Doc. call no.: M-U 41026-173 no.08-924
Switzer, James F. Planning a Deployable Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program (DSAPR). Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2009. 26 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 S9792p
Bacon, Lance M. Latest Sex Assault Prevention Push Targets Bystanders. Navy Times 59:20-21 July 19, 2010.
"The article looks at several efforts by the U.S. in preventing sexual assault. Among the changes in rules to be encountered by sailors are the inclusion of questions about sexual assault in advancement exams and scrutinizing base visits by scantily clad cheerleaders. A report released by the Defense Department on March 16, 2010 revealed that sexual assaults involving service members rose by 11 percent in fiscal 2009." - Abstract.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Butler, John Sibley and Schmidtke, James M. Theoretical Traditions and the Modeling of Sexual Harassment Within Organizations: The Military as Data. Armed Forces & Society 36:193-222 January 2010.
Examines issues of sexual harassment within military organizations. Discusses three areas that explain the dynamics of sexual harassment and suggests which areas organizations could change and which are difficult to manage or change.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=47143454&site=ehost-live
Collins, Elizabeth M. Preventing Sexual Assault. Soldiers 65:36-39 September 2010.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=55486163&site=ehost-live
Collins, Elizabeth M. Surviving Sexual Assault. Soldiers 65:30-35 September 2010.
Discusses the prevalence of sexual harassment and rape in the U.S. military. Offers several charts on statistics.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=55486162&site=ehost-live
Donley, Michael B. Integrity First. Air Force Speeches, pp 1-6, November 17, 2008.
Keynote address Secretary of the Air Force gave to the Sexual Assault Prevention and
Response Leadership Summit in Washington on November 17, 2008. Discusses sexual assault in the Air Force including some of the history, policies, and statistics.
Ewing, Philip. 'Not a Gentleman': Report: Drunkenness, Sexual Advances Derailed 1-Star's Career. Navy Times 57:8+ September 22, 2008.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Gould, Joe. Army Sexual Assaults Rise 13 Percent. Army Times 70:24 March 29, 2010.
"Reported sexual assaults in the military rose 11 percent last year, with incidents highest in the Army, according to a study released by the Pentagon. Of the branches, the Army reported the highest assaults per 1,000 service members in fiscal 2009, which ended Sept. 30. The Army recorded 2.6 incidents per 1,000; the Navy, 1.6 per 1,000; the Air Force, 1.4 per 1,000; the Marine Corps, 1.3 per 1,000." - Article.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Krul, Katherine A. The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program--in Need of More Prevention. Army Lawyer No. 426:41-60 November 2008.
"The article focuses on the lack of preventative measures of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) program in the U.S. military policy. It explores the role of the judge advocate (JA) on insuring the success of the SAP program as well as the problems of the program. It discusses the restricted reporting policy for the victim's confidentiality and the health and safety exception to confidential reporting." - Abstract.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=35598627&site=ehost-live
McMichael, William H. 'Problems with Prevention' Belie Stable Sexual Assault Numbers. Army Times 68:12 March 31, 2008.
"The number of sexual assaults by or against service members appeared to remain relatively stable for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, compared to previous years, the Pentagon said March 14, but officials cautioned that accurate comparisons with previous years are dicey because earlier reports were done by calendar year, not fiscal year. The move to fiscal year data was driven by a change in the military legal system's definition of sexual assault." - Article.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
McMichael, William H. Sexual Assaults Increased 8 Percent in 2008, DoD Reports. Air Force Times 69:16 March 30, 2009.
Based on the Pentagon's report to Congress, "reports of sexual assaults involving military victims or perpetrators in fiscal 2008 were up more than 8 percent over the previous fiscal year, and up more than three times that figure in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... the number of cases sent to court-martial rose 8 percentage points last fiscal year." However officials say more reports is what is needed because sexual assault generally is still underreported. - Article.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Rau, Terri J. and others. Evaluation of a Sexual Assault Education/Prevention Program for Male U.S. Navy Personnel. Military Medicine 175:429-434 June 2010.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA523463
Rolfsen, Bruce. Sexual Assault Prevention Class Is Mandatory. Air Force Times 70:22 May 10, 2010.
Also available online at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Schwartz, Norton A. Continuing Innovation in Prevention. Air Force Speeches, pp 1-3, November 17, 2008.
The Air Force Chief of Staff's remarks at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Leadership Summit in Washington on November 17, 2008.
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