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The association, on and about college campuses, between psychoactive substance use and the use of force or threat of force to achieve penetration of an individual without their consent.
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The association between alcohol use and rape on college campuses is addressed in “Alcohol and Rape on College Campuses”. This brief entry presents an evolutionary perspective on the possible role of other psychoactive substances in rape on and about college campuses, attending to potential interactions between the psychoactive effects of these drugs and hypothesized rape and rape avoidance adaptations. As reviewed in Alcohol and Rape on College Campuses, surveys of college students suggest that among the types of sexual assault, unwanted sexual contact and coercion are most common, followed by incapacitated rape (i.e., completed rape while the victim was intoxicated) and then forcible rape (Fedina et al. 2016). Estimates of the prevalence of sexual assault, including rape, vary...
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Richardson, G.B. (2017). Drugs and Rape on College Campuses. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3683-1
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