Sexual assault prevention programming remains a confused, scattered, and sporadic enterprise with little scientific underpinning. This situation reflects general American policy biases against sexuality-related interventions and against “merely preventive” programs. More distinctively, sexual assault prevention suffers because it fully fits neither the traditional crime-prevention model nor the traditional public-health model of prevention programming. Technical and political consequences of this fundamental ambiguity are traced, and some consideration is given to a transcendental alternative model.
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