Abstract
Rape and sexual assault have been around since the beginning of time. With surveys consistently finding that about one fifth of the population will be raped in a lifetime, there does not seem to be an end to sexual violence in sight. Social workers are frequently some of the first responders to these crimes, and their knowledge and unbiased assistance are critical in victim-survivor recovery. This quantitative descriptive study used a survey to examine the rape myth belief and knowledge of 23 randomly sampled masters level social work students. The study found that the majority of participants could only correctly answer 50 percent or less of the knowledge questions, and approximately 43 percent of participants believed at least one of the rape myth statements. The study also found that level of knowledge was not correlated with belief in the rape myth statements.