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Re-Envisioning Bystander Programs for Campus Sexual Violence Prevention

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Abstract

Purpose

Bystander programs are central to efforts to address CSV prevention. In the U.S., they are mandated in the 2013 Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (Campus SaVE) Act. This practice note shares early exploration on one university campus in re-envisioning bystander programs by centering experiences, analyses, and activism of Black, Indigenous, and other women of color, students and youth, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and gender non-conforming people (LGBTQI +).

Method

We conducted a narrative review of the theoretical and empirical literature on bystander intervention programs, drew from documentary and visionary materials on alternative perspectives and practices, and reflected on research, policy, and practice challenges on our own campus.

Results

Bystander programs are designed to: enhance community members’ awareness, skills, and intervention intentions; address all members of a community; and change behavior by countering widespread misperceptions about the prevalence and acceptability of sexual violence. All three design elements remain aspirational. Intersectional, anti-racist, gender-transformative, and anti-carceral approaches offer strategies for shifting community and social norms to promote community accountability and transformative justice.

Conclusions

CSV prevention may be enhanced by re-envisioning U.S. bystander intervention programs and encouraging systemic approaches that integrate intersectional, anti-racist, gender-transformative, and anti-carceral insights and initiatives to promote more inclusive and transformational measures to prevent CSV.

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We thank the members of Miller’s research team and interdisciplinary group for comments, especially Carrie Benson, Carla Chugani, Alana Fields, Rachel Gartner, and Lynissa Stokes. We thank Hillary Lazar, Sedona Walker, and Elizabeth Walker for manuscript preparation. We acknowledge comments on our presentations of earlier versions of sections of this manuscript from participants in the University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Work-in-Progress series; the organizers and participants at the 2018 annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association on the theme of “Interventions” at Carnegie Mellon University; and Sam Plummer and Irene Lietz.

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This work emerges from an NIH-funded interdisciplinary project (R24HD080194) also supported by the University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; no specific funding supported the production of this manuscript.

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Brush, L.D., Miller, E. Re-Envisioning Bystander Programs for Campus Sexual Violence Prevention. J Fam Viol 38, 1677–1688 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00458-7

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