The Impact of Governance, Education, Smoking, and Drugs on Sexual Violence in The Universities, In The USA

Abstract

Marzieh Ronaghi and Eric A. Scorsone

College students are more at risk of sexual violence than any other offenses due to the significant impact of drug and alcohol use on high-risk sexual behaviors. Drug use and risky sexual behaviors have some contextual factors in common that may make young people prone to these behaviors. There are several factors related to drug use by students. These factors can be divided into two categories: personal factors and environmental factors. This research uses the Spatial Panel model. This model considers different geographic regions, such as states, as a spatial panel and considers the correlation between these regions in the regression analysis. Due to the increase in Sexual violence in the US (panel data were used as a collection of data by a large number of cross-sectional variables (N) in a period (T), from 2011-2019. The results of adjacency showed that the total effect of governance has the highest impact on sexual violence.

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