a quarter (24.5%) of this sample reported to police is closer to the 19% suggested by Tjaden and Thoennes (2006) but less than the 47% reported by Catalano et al. (2009) (Erlich et al., 2000). Not only is rape a seriously underreported crime, it is also an undertreated crime. Only a small number of wom

rrests or 25.8% of reported cases (U.S. Department of Justice, 2008). Victimization data show a higher number of rapes and sexual assaults-191,670 (Catalano, 2006)—which means that potentially more than half of the rapes and sexual assaults go unreported (and therefore unpunished) to law enforcement (Fis