Promising Practices in the Primary Prevention of Sexual Assault

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i this is david le and i'm talking with portes uwe the director you why

sees interdisciplinary center for research on violence and the at the conference and modestly the

pre conference institute a promising practise is in the primary prevention perceptual small as a

thank you very much for representation

and so what i want to is just a somewhat i some of what you

would highlighted sure for different areas and so i want to talk about the different

areas of so many important work you see in the trends around primary functions so

let's first talk about briefly

we can establish issues i think looking at the base this study

i you know what they just for kind of things go in and that is

this study we should really groundbreaking is really understanding the impact

of early experiences

a later health and wellbeing and so early exposure to violence

certainly has an impact and expression of you know i'll tell you this will help

you know ten twenty three forty years later so

in our in our efforts to prevent sexual violence

you know we focused you know some someone right at the time that's actual miles

have you know young adulthood at what you know adolescence

when really uttered by lessons elementary school even those you know zero five with kids

exposed to domestic violence

some questions we have task you know what you

with young children and families to you

for healthy passive development relationships

one piece which i was really that was important that you talked about is looking

at the

looking at two in our work at all levels of social uncle a large psychology

so i know to do it sort of have a

focuses on the individual probably more so the four levels that we try to talk

about a perceptual individual level

the relationship level peers family

no or relationships in a person's life

the community level and means to find also sort of basic see your schoolwork your

profession

and then at the larger societal blows over social norms so you use laws legislation

and you have for years and years especially in a in that for finding bring

better as

but does all the early interventions were focus at the level of individual you know

change people's knowledge change people's attitudes change people skills

but everything you know or inventions were focusing on twenty years

when like happens in relationship sexual

in communities in society in relationships and so

make short work we

you know i think it is increasing recognition across all types of social problems

like any change and that you and you met switching observations of that while we

focus a lot on our knowledge attitudes and beliefs

we're not it's not really clear that the changes were the changes that will contribute

towards

preventing sexual violence

absolutely and so you know one prime single one and field for the last five

to ten years

you know is a little control the bystander

in sexual violence prevention

and so

i and it's exciting towards a couple a couple ways mean one

one and we boarded for sure that especially when you're addressing you know a school

students schools that one wonderful time when we're all instance you know girl she's never

gonna be you know that them of sexual assault you know guy thinks is ever

going to commit sexual assault

so one thing a clear from my earlier passes study was that you know those

interventions that addressed young people as potential victims a substantial perpetrators very little effect and

students

so the primes the bystander approach we are treating attitudes as potential

no evidence of perpetrators but is a potential you know helpers from for everybody you

get vowel and then the statistics kinda makes sense you know one and for you

know

when you know

sometime in a lot this can be the comments actual cell

your sister your cousin girlfriend wife your daughter

and you want to be prepared how

hope that person

you also want to be able to protect your friends to prevent them from a

conceptual so

so you know by taking

the bystander purchase from for everybody get involved

you breakdown defences against real conversations about what's appropriate and inappropriate behaviour where some say

ways to intervene if you see you know their party and guys are few shots

and

you see people are comfortable

so much of sexual assault is socially can condone there's pressure type of cultural pressures

sexes

well as male dominance

and you know all men and women are

and you there's this perception that's how things are supposed to be enough

kinda need i think a

sometimes the good guys a silent you know mature so it just takes one person

speaker

get some analyze and it can

all stop

thus

don't the literature and you show that worth noting is where you describe the sex

positive movement and how that looks how that is involved in the psychological which and

missing more distant last

the last five years and

and

no i think and it's a way to

prevention educators

thought limited

in their in others regrouping that was active for a large part in it is

not limited by what they could talk about in schools in different setting

morning to you know

you move beyond

prevention rate to promoting your task how to pronounce that i really need to look

at risk and factors and strictly increasing projected factors is

is a great movement

my are and you know there's the emphasis i know who's us to consent and

all this that you know my concern as well it's all well good you know

possibility of social behavior not sure that's the crowd that's committing

a sexual assault

and so it is a giant from the problem defence talking about sexual assault military

is like you know i don't care if guys feel better or if they communicate

better of the you change their attitudes or increase their knowledge or improve their communication

skills i want sexual salt and

and so

well you know is certainly looking at send a looking at that

positive sexuality is all well good my concern is

really

in

a large model of sexual assault is committed by a small percentage of individuals

and teaching those in of an individual's were

are willing to commit sexual assault usually there is can fusion about consent

among skies you know manipulate environment in this way

i purposely isolate them teaching these guys about consent

it's not gonna make difference

rates so

which one and with a little bit of talk about measurement and how we can

measure success sexual violence prevention efforts

and that's been scamper

to the feature to progress in the field i think we don't have any good

predictive measures so we first three acceptance measures developed in that i using those were

used for about twenty years

pink and green it's gerald improve them on treatment exception scale

and we can we're talking about kind of rate missus better major outcome study societal

police you know

about its own sexually assaulted treating when minutes

objects

so that that's all well good but attitude knowledge attitudes a pretty far removed from

behavior

no mention at your actual incidents actual solve so problematic because guys channel himself or

that if the conceptual so it's amazing how many we'll and one study yes college

freshmen instances when they were tempted to force accent person

and again about five percent of i is to record instances in which they did

perform some level of consensual sexual activity

but

in the way a large scale

study

that be difficult to do another thing to do more than one study was to

conform paradigm

where i asked to write export confederates were trained to all sorts of a terrible

thing we want to see what the subject will be

changes social pressure source for more

standard is used and

we got a and

after a

what seem to be an effective prevention program more guidance to resist that conformity pressure

that there is no user no measures they're expensive i would be nice to just

look at the police reports and say we increase sexual assault

unfortunately the lower levels chlorine difficulties with prosecution action

such a small you know the official for such a small fraction of the actual

instant

instances of sexual assault

that should be problematic

the one o is if you've got a large and tax system

so the military there and i'm a survey

as a probably the most accurate channel a self reported victimisation

and we can try that over the years and know the metric a lot of

bad press

over the twenty six thousand sexual assaults or whatever they are but every is not

greater than the really in civilian population

and military is putting while a afterwards a lot of a smart people are working

on the problem and i'm

for reducing what we can do you

to you know all lower the rates of circles all military

and then learned from those f is a translate some what they learned there and

it's i'm not a

on the older range of where i'd like to be working but i still more

important lessons

to translate into sexual assault prevention marking

thank you very much for spending a few minutes talking with me about your presentation