Profile of a Child Molester

This post is one of several promised subjects for posting during 2008. Most of this information is taken from interviews and writings by molesters themselves (from interviews others have done), and some is taken from research on child sexual predators.
Myths and Facts About Child Molesters

Myth: Anyone who would molest a child is seedy-looking or looks [...]

Getting safe and getting help: Stalking

Stalking Isn’t Like Other Crimes
See this previous post on stalking, with a definition and basic info about stalking. Today’s post will provide you with a safety plan and tell you what to do in a stalking emergency.
Stalking is a major issue for both sexes. Unlike rape, where the victim ratio is heavily skewed toward [...]

Washington State’s Confidentiality Program

NEW RESOURCE FOR WASHINGTON STATE…
Through a new TV commercial I just became aware of a Washington State service called the Address Confidentiality Program (ACP). If you’re fleeing from domestic abuse, stalking, or a sexual assault, you may be able to access this program to keep your new address and contact information strictly confidential.
There are certain [...]

Getting safe and getting help: Sexual Assault

When you’ve just been sexually assaulted there are only three basic things that absolutely have to be done:

Get away from your attacker
Go to a safe place
Call 911 for help (it’s extremely helpful to also call a supportive friend or family member at this point)

But here’s a complete list of steps that will make this miserable [...]

Sexual Assault Resources Specifically for Men

That men are raped is not in question. The same as for female rape victims, many ignorant people in society hold bigoted or erroneous views about male rape victims:

Men can protect themselves, so he must’ve wanted it or else he would’ve stopped it.
Now that he’s been raped, he’s homosexual.
He was homosexual anyway, so it’s all [...]

For the Record: A Letter to My Male Friends

Dear Gentlemen,
You are the good guys. We women know you’re out there. Having written all these posts about attacks and violence between the sexes, I’m feeling dragged down and depressed about the relationships between men and women. As male readers, you’re probably not feeling the love either.
So here’s the deal. Good guys, we love you [...]

Define Stalking

Definition of Stalking
Stalking: An intrusive (not necessarily overt) pattern of surveillance directed at a specific person that causes a reasonable person to be unnerved or afraid for her/his safety.
Some one in 12 women is stalked in her lifetime, and over 75 percent of women murdered by a husband or boyfriend were stalked by them first. [...]

Define Sexual Harassment

Definition of Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment: Persistent and unwanted sexual advances or sexualized environment, whether overt or covert; sexually-based and gender-targeted behaviors that ordinary people find disturbing or frightening.
Types of sexual harassment, according to several sources, include (but are not limited to):
Street harassment
Workplace harassment
Initiations or hazing rituals
Retaliatory harassment (against a complainant)
Many resources have already been listed [...]

Define Sexual Assault

I wish some of this material could be posted directly here, but it is all under full copyright. Resources are not available to purchase the material or the rights to republish it. But here are direct links to the exact information.
Definition of Rape
Any type of penetration (using body parts, objects, etc.) of any body orifice [...]

Stalking–New Subject, New Resources

I’m adding stalking and sexual harassment resources to the sexual assault resources already on this blog. Here are great websites for victims of stalking and violent crime:

To start, visit the National Center for Victims of Crime. Then navigate to the Stalking Resource Center page. There you’ll find statistics on stalking, statistics from college campuses, a [...]

Sexual assault stats from the National Center for Victims of Crime

Visit the sexual assault statistics page on the National Center for Victims of Crime website.
Also visit their Resources page for helpful links and contact information to assist sexual assault victims.
This site contains a solid information set of statistics and resources for many other types of crime as well as sexual assault (including statistics and resources [...]

Help for Victims of Sexual Assault

[Originally posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 at 8:14 PM PDT]
This information is taken from the Office for the Victims of Crime website. You can find the information below by clicking here. According to the website, “These documents may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial, scientific and educational purposes.”For information on rights and [...]