Sexual violence prevention programs change ideas, not behaviors

I am a co-author on a new meta-analysis: Preventing Sexual Violence —A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally-Informed Solution, along with Roni Porat, Ana P. Gantman, John-Henry Pezzuto, and Elizabeth Levy Paluck.

The vast majority of papers try to change ideas about sexual violence and are moderately successful at that. However, on the most crucial outcomes — perpetration and victimization — the primary prevention literature has not yet found its footing. We argue that the field should take a more behavioralist approach and focus on the environmental and structural determinants of violence.

Please see this post on the EA forum for a plain language summary.