A study published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical Association, has challenged the perception that most college men who commit rape are serial offenders.
A previous study, published in 2002, found that about 6 percent of men surveyed at the University of Massachusetts at Boston had acknowledged committing acts that met criteria for rape or attempted rape. That research attracted widespread attention in part because 63 percent of those who admitted to such behaviors reported that they had committed repeat offenses.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/study-challenges-idea-that-many-campus-rapists-are-serial-offenders/101969