Citation

Cares AC, Banyard VL, Moynihan MM, Williams LM, Potter SJ, Stapleton JG. Violence Against Women 2015; 21(2): 165-187.

Affiliation

University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801214564681

PMID

25540255

Abstract

Bystander approaches to reducing sexual violence train community members in prosocial roles to interrupt situations with risk of sexual violence and be supportive community allies after an assault. This study employs a true experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of Bringing in the Bystander™ through 1-year post-implementation with first-year students from two universities (one rural, primarily residential; one urban, heavily commuter). We found significant change in bystander attitudes for male and female student program participants compared with the control group on both campuses, although the pattern of change depended on the combination of gender and campus.

Language: en