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The results may offer important insights into the distribution of risk across the services

• A large proportion of all sexual assaults occur at a relatively few large installations for each of the services. There are some installations where we estimate there were more than 500 sexual assaults of women and men in 2014.
• Each service member's estimated risk of being sexually assaulted in the one-year period of study depends to a substantial extent on factors associated with his or her duty assignment to a particular unit, command, and installation. Service members' risk of sexual assault can be substantially higher or lower depending on the installations to which they are assigned. Moreover, installation-specific risk is often a large portion of the total risk at an installation or command.
• Our estimates of sexual assault and sexual harassment risk are highly correlated across installations. These strong associations suggest that sexual assault and sexual harassment have very similar predictors at both the individual and installation levels.

In early 2014, the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute to conduct an independent assessment of the rates of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military — an assessment last conducted in 2012 by the Department of Defense using the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members. The resulting RAND Military Workplace Study invited close to 560,000 U.S. service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014. This volume presents survey estimates of how risk of sexual assault and sexual harassment varies across military installations and major commands. The researchers find that risk of sexual assault and harassment varies across installations and commands and that these differences are sometimes large. Patterns in these risk estimates offer important insights into the types of environments where service members are most or least likely to be sexually assaulted or harassed. The results may also provide clues about the conditions that contribute to sexual assault risk and about strategies that could be used to prevent sexual assault and harassment.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Approach to Estimating Risk at Installations and Major Commands

• Chapter Three

  The Distribution of Sexual Assault Risk

• Chapter Four

  The Distribution of Sexual Harassment Risk

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions and Recommendations

• Appendix

  Marine Corps Command-Specific Risk