Why Sexual Violence Victims Do Not Report?

Sexual violence is a serious problem across the globe. A lot of victims, particularly women, go through this experience. Unfortunately, not all of these violent incidents come to public. A large portion of victims don't disclose their experience. On the September of 2018, people started revealing in Twitter why they didn't report a sexual violence experience using a hashtag #WhyIDidntReport. We collect about 40K such tweets and conduct a large-scale supervised analysis of why victims don't report. Our study finds the extent to which people shared their reasons as well as categorizes the reasons into finer reasons. We also analyze user engaged with the victims and compare our findings with existing literature.

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2020

Moitra, Aparna; Hassan, Naeemul; Mandal, Manash Kumar; Bhuiyan, Mansurul; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque; . Understanding the challenges for bangladeshi women to participate in# metoo movement. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2020
Hassan, Naeemul; Poudel, Amrit; Hale, Jason; Hubacek, Claire; Huq, Khandaker Tasnim; Santu, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque; . Towards automated sexual violence report tracking. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2020

2019

Hassan, Naeemul; Mandal, Manash Kumar; Bhuiyan, Mansurul; Moitra, Aparna; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque; . Nonparticipation of bangladeshi women in# metoo movement. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. 2019
Garrett, Abigail; Hassan, Naeemul; . Understanding the silence of sexual harassment victims through the #whyididntreport movement. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. 2019
Hassan, Naeemul; Mandal, Manash Kumar; Bhuiyan, Mansurul; Moitra, Aparna; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque; . Can women break the glass ceiling? an analysis of #metoo hashtagged posts on twitter. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. 2019