Does Combat Increase the Risk of Sexual Assault? A Brief Appraisal

Abstract

Problem Variable Definitions of Sexual Assault and Combat: In this study of females across the services, the authors did not define sexual assault for the participants, ii leaving it to self interpretation. They also considered participants to have experienced combat if they had exposure to one or more of the following six combat experiences: witnessing death; witnessing physical abuse; dead and/or decomposing bodies; maimed soldiers or civilians; or prisoners of war, or refugees. iii Though these experiences are possibly traumatic, they are not all specific to combat. Participants could witness death and physical abuse stateside, for example, yet nondeployed military members either did not receive these questions or their data were not reported. Definitions of combat experiences also did not include the historical characterization of experiencing enemy fire, capture, or non-fatal personal contact with the enemy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 16, 2013
Accession Number
AD1061952

Entities

People

  • Wendy Chambers

Organizations

  • Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Aircrafts
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Artillery Units
  • Combat Injuries
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Health
  • Marine Corps
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Psychology
  • New York
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Psychology
  • Sexual Assault
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Therapy
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Warfare

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