Fraternities, Athletic Teams, And Rape By Derek Kreager

greater agreement with fourteen rape supportive statements than the controls. In a separate journal article conducted by Stephen Humphrey “Fraternities, Athletic Teams, and Rape” Humphrey studies the connection between physical and sexual assault and membership of fraternities and athletic teams. In this research including campus crime statistics, survey, and student perception questionnaires, revealed that members of fraternities and male sports teams were both identified as high risk sub groups on campus. “These findings showed that some fraternity or athletic team members are more likely to commit sexual assault than males in the general student population”

Football, baseball, and basketball are just a few sports that have always dominated

Their aggression and ability to afflict damage is seen as a positive asset to their team and sport. Many people are impressed by these attributes so these young athletes receive almost instant respect by their peers on campus. Derek Kreager would consider these athletic attributes of strength, physicality, and aggression groomed in such a masculine atmosphere as a recipe for violence. Kreagers American sociological journal article “Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence”, dives into the culture of male athletics and the connection to physical violence “off the field”. Kreager argues that the high rates of men who are members of athletic teams that commit sexual assault and or physical battery are following within the norms of athletic culture gaining respect by proving their strength and masculinity. Not only that, because access to these “impressive” men and their attention is at such a high demand by their peers especially young women in their immediate society or campus. Kreager even states that girls/women have more often than not been very available to these men for majority of their late teens and early adulthood encouraging low regard and lack of respect for women in general. Assaulting a woman in a social atmosphere