Sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military
Subtitle: Top-line estimates for active-duty Coast Guard members from the 2014 RAND military workplace study
By: National Defense Research Institute
Contributors: United States. Coast Guard
Series: RR-944-USCG; Research report (Rand Corporation) -- RR-944-USCG.
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
ISBN-13: 9780833088611
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: United States; United States. Coast Guard; Rape in the military; Women sailors; Sailors; Sexual harassment in the military; Crimes against; Women
Other titles: Top-line estimates for active-duty Coast Guard members from the 2014 RAND military workplace study
Description: "In early 2014, the Department of Defense (DoD) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military -- an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the department itself with the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Personnel (WGRA). Separately, the Coast Guard requested that we expand the 2014 study to include an assessment of its active and reserve force. This report provides initial top-line active-duty Coast Guard estimates from the resulting RAND Military Workplace Study, which invited close to 560,000 service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014. The RMWS takes an approach to counting individuals in the military who experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment, or gender discrimination that measures the incidence of specific crimes and violations. Our measurement of sexual assault aligns closely with the definitions and criteria in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for Article 120 crimes. The survey measures of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, which together we refer to as sex-based military equal opportunity (MEO) violations, use criteria drawn from DoD Directive 1350.2. Compared with past surveys that were designed to measure a climate of sexual misconduct associated with illegal behavior, the approach used in the RMWS offers greater precision in estimating the number of crimes and MEO violations that have occurred."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Prepared for the United States Coast Guard."

Includes bibliographical references (page 23).