0:00:04i this is david le and i'm talking with portes uwe the director you why
0:00:08sees interdisciplinary center for research on violence and the at the conference and modestly the
0:00:14pre conference institute a promising practise is in the primary prevention perceptual small as a
0:00:20thank you very much for representation
0:00:23and so what i want to is just a somewhat i some of what you
0:00:26would highlighted sure for different areas and so i want to talk about the different
0:00:33areas of so many important work you see in the trends around primary functions so
0:00:39let's first talk about briefly
0:00:42we can establish issues i think looking at the base this study
0:00:46i you know what they just for kind of things go in and that is
0:00:51this study we should really groundbreaking is really understanding the impact
0:00:57of early experiences
0:00:59a later health and wellbeing and so early exposure to violence
0:01:04certainly has an impact and expression of you know i'll tell you this will help
0:01:11you know ten twenty three forty years later so
0:01:16in our in our efforts to prevent sexual violence
0:01:19you know we focused you know some someone right at the time that's actual miles
0:01:24have you know young adulthood at what you know adolescence
0:01:29when really uttered by lessons elementary school even those you know zero five with kids
0:01:37exposed to domestic violence
0:01:39some questions we have task you know what you
0:01:42with young children and families to you
0:01:45for healthy passive development relationships
0:01:50one piece which i was really that was important that you talked about is looking
0:01:54at the
0:01:55looking at two in our work at all levels of social uncle a large psychology
0:02:00so i know to do it sort of have a
0:02:02focuses on the individual probably more so the four levels that we try to talk
0:02:09about a perceptual individual level
0:02:13the relationship level peers family
0:02:17no or relationships in a person's life
0:02:21the community level and means to find also sort of basic see your schoolwork your
0:02:26profession
0:02:29and then at the larger societal blows over social norms so you use laws legislation
0:02:38and you have for years and years especially in a in that for finding bring
0:02:43better as
0:02:44but does all the early interventions were focus at the level of individual you know
0:02:49change people's knowledge change people's attitudes change people skills
0:02:54but everything you know or inventions were focusing on twenty years
0:02:58when like happens in relationship sexual
0:03:04in communities in society in relationships and so
0:03:10make short work we
0:03:13you know i think it is increasing recognition across all types of social problems
0:03:19like any change and that you and you met switching observations of that while we
0:03:28focus a lot on our knowledge attitudes and beliefs
0:03:32we're not it's not really clear that the changes were the changes that will contribute
0:03:37towards
0:03:39preventing sexual violence
0:03:41absolutely and so you know one prime single one and field for the last five
0:03:47to ten years
0:03:48you know is a little control the bystander
0:03:53in sexual violence prevention
0:03:55and so
0:03:57i and it's exciting towards a couple a couple ways mean one
0:04:04one and we boarded for sure that especially when you're addressing you know a school
0:04:09students schools that one wonderful time when we're all instance you know girl she's never
0:04:16gonna be you know that them of sexual assault you know guy thinks is ever
0:04:21going to commit sexual assault
0:04:23so one thing a clear from my earlier passes study was that you know those
0:04:28interventions that addressed young people as potential victims a substantial perpetrators very little effect and
0:04:38students
0:04:39so the primes the bystander approach we are treating attitudes as potential
0:04:46no evidence of perpetrators but is a potential you know helpers from for everybody you
0:04:52get vowel and then the statistics kinda makes sense you know one and for you
0:04:58know
0:04:58when you know
0:05:00sometime in a lot this can be the comments actual cell
0:05:04your sister your cousin girlfriend wife your daughter
0:05:10and you want to be prepared how
0:05:14hope that person
0:05:16you also want to be able to protect your friends to prevent them from a
0:05:22conceptual so
0:05:24so you know by taking
0:05:27the bystander purchase from for everybody get involved
0:05:31you breakdown defences against real conversations about what's appropriate and inappropriate behaviour where some say
0:05:38ways to intervene if you see you know their party and guys are few shots
0:05:44and
0:05:47you see people are comfortable
0:05:49so much of sexual assault is socially can condone there's pressure type of cultural pressures
0:05:56sexes
0:05:59well as male dominance
0:06:01and you know all men and women are
0:06:07and you there's this perception that's how things are supposed to be enough
0:06:12kinda need i think a
0:06:16sometimes the good guys a silent you know mature so it just takes one person
0:06:21speaker
0:06:23get some analyze and it can
0:06:27all stop
0:06:29thus
0:06:33don't the literature and you show that worth noting is where you describe the sex
0:06:39positive movement and how that looks how that is involved in the psychological which and
0:06:46missing more distant last
0:06:48the last five years and
0:06:49and
0:06:51no i think and it's a way to
0:06:55prevention educators
0:06:57thought limited
0:06:58in their in others regrouping that was active for a large part in it is
0:07:03not limited by what they could talk about in schools in different setting
0:07:11morning to you know
0:07:12you move beyond
0:07:14prevention rate to promoting your task how to pronounce that i really need to look
0:07:20at risk and factors and strictly increasing projected factors is
0:07:25is a great movement
0:07:27my are and you know there's the emphasis i know who's us to consent and
0:07:34all this that you know my concern as well it's all well good you know
0:07:40possibility of social behavior not sure that's the crowd that's committing
0:07:47a sexual assault
0:07:49and so it is a giant from the problem defence talking about sexual assault military
0:07:56is like you know i don't care if guys feel better or if they communicate
0:08:02better of the you change their attitudes or increase their knowledge or improve their communication
0:08:07skills i want sexual salt and
0:08:10and so
0:08:11well you know is certainly looking at send a looking at that
0:08:18positive sexuality is all well good my concern is
0:08:24really
0:08:25in
0:08:29a large model of sexual assault is committed by a small percentage of individuals
0:08:36and teaching those in of an individual's were
0:08:41are willing to commit sexual assault usually there is can fusion about consent
0:08:47among skies you know manipulate environment in this way
0:08:54i purposely isolate them teaching these guys about consent
0:08:58it's not gonna make difference
0:09:01rates so
0:09:03which one and with a little bit of talk about measurement and how we can
0:09:07measure success sexual violence prevention efforts
0:09:11and that's been scamper
0:09:15to the feature to progress in the field i think we don't have any good
0:09:20predictive measures so we first three acceptance measures developed in that i using those were
0:09:26used for about twenty years
0:09:29pink and green it's gerald improve them on treatment exception scale
0:09:33and we can we're talking about kind of rate missus better major outcome study societal
0:09:39police you know
0:09:41about its own sexually assaulted treating when minutes
0:09:47objects
0:09:49so that that's all well good but attitude knowledge attitudes a pretty far removed from
0:09:55behavior
0:09:57no mention at your actual incidents actual solve so problematic because guys channel himself or
0:10:03that if the conceptual so it's amazing how many we'll and one study yes college
0:10:11freshmen instances when they were tempted to force accent person
0:10:17and again about five percent of i is to record instances in which they did
0:10:25perform some level of consensual sexual activity
0:10:31but
0:10:33in the way a large scale
0:10:37study
0:10:39that be difficult to do another thing to do more than one study was to
0:10:45conform paradigm
0:10:47where i asked to write export confederates were trained to all sorts of a terrible
0:10:54thing we want to see what the subject will be
0:10:58changes social pressure source for more
0:11:02standard is used and
0:11:05we got a and
0:11:07after a
0:11:09what seem to be an effective prevention program more guidance to resist that conformity pressure
0:11:16that there is no user no measures they're expensive i would be nice to just
0:11:21look at the police reports and say we increase sexual assault
0:11:26unfortunately the lower levels chlorine difficulties with prosecution action
0:11:32such a small you know the official for such a small fraction of the actual
0:11:39instant
0:11:40instances of sexual assault
0:11:42that should be problematic
0:11:45the one o is if you've got a large and tax system
0:11:49so the military there and i'm a survey
0:11:54as a probably the most accurate channel a self reported victimisation
0:12:02and we can try that over the years and know the metric a lot of
0:12:07bad press
0:12:08over the twenty six thousand sexual assaults or whatever they are but every is not
0:12:14greater than the really in civilian population
0:12:18and military is putting while a afterwards a lot of a smart people are working
0:12:25on the problem and i'm
0:12:28for reducing what we can do you
0:12:30to you know all lower the rates of circles all military
0:12:35and then learned from those f is a translate some what they learned there and
0:12:39it's i'm not a
0:12:41on the older range of where i'd like to be working but i still more
0:12:44important lessons
0:12:46to translate into sexual assault prevention marking
0:12:50thank you very much for spending a few minutes talking with me about your presentation