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Amy Grace P. Donohue; Caroline Epley; Andrew R. Morral; Dean Kilpatrick
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military, 03/2016Book Chapter
The RAND form used behavioral descriptions of forms of physical contact that can qualify as sexual assault under UCMJ Article 120. Some of these descriptions were more explicit than had been used in earlier WGRA surveys, though they are comparable to the behaviorally specific language found in many surveys of the general population (e.g., the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and surveys of special populations, such as college students.¹ The use of behaviorally specific language poses two known risks: some who take the survey may be offended by its
