How College Dorm Rooms Facilitate Sexual Assault

Everything from furniture selection to the fact that upperclassmen are more likely to have single rooms increases the risk of assault

Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
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5 min readJan 13, 2020

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DDiscussions of campus sexual assault prevention tend to focus on alcohol, pathological perpetrators, and the culture of toxic masculinity. As important as these…

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Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
GEN
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Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan are both professors at Columbia University. They are authors of Sexual Citizens, published by W.W. Norton