A college campus isnâ??t the first place that comes to mind in a discussion about violent crime.
But research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1 out of 5 college women will be sexually assaulted. NPRâ??s investigative unit teamed up with journalists at the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) to look at the failure of schools â?? and the government agency that oversees them â?? to prevent these assaults and then to resolve these cases.
When a woman is sexually assaulted on a college campus, her most common reaction is to keep it quiet. Laura Dunn says she stayed quiet about what happened in April 2004 at the end of her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin.