Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot

About the author: Carol Bohmer is a lawyer and an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrea Parrot is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Service Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She is co-founder and chair of the Cornell Coalition Advocating Rape Education.

Prevention programs are the best solution for reducing the number of rapes on campus. However, since even the best prevention programs will not eliminate campus rape, effective policies dealing with rapes that have occurred also must be available. To be effective, these policies should be of a nature that victims will not be reticent to report assaults and more important, should convince potential assailants that punishment will be sure and swift...