Sexual Assault on Cruise
Seemingly in an eternal state of damage control, cruise companies have pledged to improve accountability and increase transparency in their crime reporting.
The industry's primary trade group, meanwhile, has maintained that sex crimes are no more common on cruise ships than in the average U.S. city – a narrative that has been challenged fiercely by victims' advocates and maritime attorneys.
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Highest Number Of Alleged Sexual Assaults
The highest number of alleged sexual assaults and rapes occurred on Carnival Cruise Line ships, with 45 throughout 2023, according to the DOT report. Thirty-eight of the incidents were allegedly committed by passengers, three by crew members, and four were marked as "unknown or other."
Miami-based Royal Caribbean had the second-highest frequency of reported incidents, with 26. Federal court records show the cruise line has been sued twice in the last eight months over separate cases of alleged sexual assault.
New Reports On Sexual Assaults
After reviewing the new reports on sexual assaults aboard cruise ships, Ross Klein, a sociology professor and author of several books on the cruise industry, estimated that Carnival Cruise Line's adjusted rate of sexual assault is 42 per 100,0000 passengers.
"The media falls into Carnival's trap saying, 'Well, we have 5.5 million people cruising a year, and the [rate of assaults] is small compared to that,'" Walker says. "That's not the way you look at crime statistics at all. This is what the cruise lines were arguing over 12 years ago when they were trying to avoid reporting."
Cruise Trade Association Claims
The cruise trade association claims that even when adjusted to a per-capita tally, onboard violent crime rates show that cruising is safer than spending time on the mainland. CLIA says cruise ships have "rates of serious crimes that are exceedingly lower than those on land due to multiple layers of security and the nature of cruising."
"When it comes to safety and security, the cruise industry is heavily regulated both nationally and internationally, and the transparent public reporting of criminal statistics for cruise ships is unprecedented in other sectors of travel and tourism," the group says.
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