# How to reduce rape by half?

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**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-reduce-rape-by-half/800943 "2017-11-07T03:50:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-reduce-rape-by-half/800943/47 "2017-11-07T16:36:44Z")

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> [@The Spike Thread (Buffy related and LONG)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spike-thread-buffy-related-and-long/106865/7):
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> [This PDF](http://www.svri.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2016-03-21/menandboys.pdf) looks like a meta-analysis of various other programs targeting men and boys.
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> So, in fact, there are people targeting boys and men and such programs have achieved some success.

Not very much, unfortunately.

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> While changes in attitudes have been linked to improvements in non-violent behavior outcomes in the research literature, there is little evidence of the effectiveness of interventions to actually decrease boys’ and young men’s perpetration of violent behaviors in the long-term. Only eight of the strong or moderate studies in the review attempted to measure perpetration of sexual violence, and only three of these were focused on younger teens. Out of these eight studies, only one [Foshee et al. 2004] demonstrated a significant impact on behavior: four years after participating in Safe Dates, a school-based, multi-component, mixed-sex intervention, adolescents reported perpetrating significantly less sexual and physical dating violence than those in a control group.

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> I, for one, would like to see these boys’ programs promoted as heavily as the girls’ programs.

I’d like to see more evidence that they work as well as the Canadian program allegedly did.

Regards,  
Shodan

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