US college football linked to rise in rape, study shows
Top US college football games are linked to an increase in rape cases reported to law enforcement authorities, a new study shows.
Titled “College Party Culture and Sexual Assault,” the study was sponsored by the US National Bureau of Economic Research.
It found out that there is a 28-percent rise in the number of rape reports when Division 1 football games are being held.
“We find significant and robust evidence that football game days increase reports of rape victimization among 17–24 year old women by 28 percent. Home games increase reports by 41 percent on the day of the game and away games increase reports by 15 percent,” it read.
The study also suggested that consumption of alcohol at such events is “the most obvious” mechanism that could “increase the incidence of rape among college students” because the practice has “direct pharmacological effects on aggression and cognitive functioning.”
“By providing convincing evidence that spikes in the degree of partying at a university escalate the incidence of rape, our results suggest that efforts to avoid such spikes could serve to reduce the incidence of rape,” read the paper, co-authored by Isaac Swensen of Montana State University, Jason Lindo of Texas A&M University, and Peter Siminski of Australia’s University of Wollongong.
According to the Guardian, the study could “fuel” more debates over how much rape cases may originate from the American “jock culture.”
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