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Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking

​Read more about the people and projects that demonstrate NORC's expertise in Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking.

Representative Projects

A Dating Violence Prevention Program for Each Grade in Middle School. With support from the National Institute of Justice, NORC is conducting a three-year randomized multi-level experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-level longitudinal approach to dating violence and sexual harassment (DV/H) prevention programming for public middle school students from New York City (NYC).  More

National Former Prisoner Survey.

The National Former Prisoner Survey (FPS) is one of a series of major studies undertaken by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, in response to congressional mandates in the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. The National Former Prisoner Survey was conducted by NORC in 2008 and was designed to provide national estimates of sexual violence within prisons. More

NIJ Dating Violence Experiment in NYC I with PERF.

For this project, on which NORC is a subcontractor to the Police Executive Research Forum, the research team randomly assigned 30 New York City middle schools (two 6th and two 7th grade classrooms in each, with a final total of 117 participating classrooms) to one of four conditions: (1) a classroom‐based intervention, (2) a building intervention, (3) both classroom and building interventions, or (4) a no‐treatment control group. The classroom curriculum included six sessions emphasizing the consequences for perpetrators of dating violence/harassment (DV/H); state and federal laws for DV/H; the setting and communicating of boundaries in relationships; and the role of bystanders as interveners.​ More

Headlines

News The Associated Press: Zeroing tolerance for rape in prison, with help from the National Former Prisoner Survey More
Posted: 5.17.2012 4:59PM
News Harvard Education Letter: Preventing middle school sexual harassment, with findings from the NIJ Dating Violence Experiment in NYC More
Posted: 12.5.2011 4:34PM
News The New York Times: The correlation between colleges, Catholicism, and affiliation, with data from the General Social Survey More
Posted: 11.15.2011 3:48PM
News Education Week: Teenagers, sexual harrasment, education, and more with input from NORC's Bruce Taylor More
Posted: 11.7.2011 4:30PM
Event October 27 | Shifting Boundaries, The Cheever House at Wellesley College, Thursday, October 27, 2011 More
Posted: 9.27.2011 2:13PM