Campus Whisper Networks

Name: Campus Whisper Networks
Brand: Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press

Campus Whisper NetworksKnowing with Sexual Assault Survivors\nAuthor(s): Janet Hinson Shope, Richard Pringle\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978845022, 978-1978845022\nSynopsis\nCampus Whisper Networks examines how personal knowledge about student sexual assault circulates within college campus communities. Based upon both qualitative and quantitative survey data, Janet Shope and Richard Pringle's research demonstrates that students who have been sexually assaulted tell someone -almost always a friend. Most college students know someone who has been assaulted. Simply knowing, by means of relationships, that one or more peers have been assaulted affects the knowers, and the effects reverberate unevenly across campuses.\n\n Shope and Pringle highlight the structural properties that prohibit relational knowledge from becoming official institutional knowledge, confining it to whispers and secrecy with.