Opinion of Students about Sexual Harassment in Academy

Abstract

The purposes of the study on “opinions of students about sexual harassment in academy” are to study opinions of students about sexual harassment in academy, to find a preventive approach and to solve sexual harassment issues in academy. The population in this study included undergraduate students who enrolled in 3 following subjects: CJ311, CJ313 and CJ 315 of academic year 1/2016. The statistics used to analyze data were descriptive statistic, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results can be concluded as follows.

Students had opinions about sexual harassment in the academy in 3 aspects in a middle level ( = 3.66), where the opinion about sexual harassment was in the high level = 3.94, followed by the opinion about general comments about sexual harassment in the level of = 3.61, and the opinion about influential factors toward sexual harassment in the level of = 3.43.

Suggestions in this study were that 1) the academy should promote understanding about sexual harassment for students, 2) students’ activities should be encouraged to include extra-curricular activities concerning sexual harassment, 3) the justice administration minor department should hold activities or learning activities outside of classroom, 4) students should adjust their opinions about the factors influencing sexual harassment that sexual harassment is not a result of how victims dress or what victims say, 5) the academy should make the environment safe, 6) the academy should promote the students and personnel to surveil and report sexual harassment in the academy, 7) families and the academy should collaborate to set appropriate values for students about gender equality, and 8) the academy should have a central wait to accept complaints or provide consultation in a concrete manner, as well as opening other channels to receive reports or complaints.