Crime Victimization
Drug-facilitated, incapacitated and forcible rape: A national study (pdf)
Submitted to the DOJ in 2007 the study of rapes against women found that about 20 million out of 112 million women (18.0%) in the US have been raped at some point in their life, including an estimated 18 million women who have been forcibly raped. In the last year of the study over 800,000 women had been forcibly raped and nearly 200,000 college women had been forcibly raped.
The study found that only 16% of all rapes against women were reported to law enforcement. In the general population only 11% of forcible rapes and 19% of drug assisted/incapacitated rapes were committed by a stranger and those numbers are even lower among college women.
Who are the victims?
According to RAINN 1 in 6 women (17.6%) and 1 in 33 men (3%) in the US have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
29 percent of Utah women surveyed reported being sexually assaulted in their lifetime
A phone survey of 1,800 women in Utah found a higher rate of violence than expected and a lower rate of reporting than expected.
CDC report on intimate partner violence
A study found that 23.6 percent of women have experienced intimate partner violence.
About the Justice System
An academic paper looks at the legacy of legal discrimination against rape victims
The prompt complaint requirement, corroboration requirement and cautionary instructions to juries applied unequal protection to rapists because of baseless assumptions about fraudulent reports of rape. In the criminal justice these unequal rules are being eliminated while some colleges are adding these unequal rules to their internal processes.
UK study suggests that alcohol nullifies need for consent
A UK study found that juries are reluctant to convict those who rape women who were intoxicated because the victim's silence amounts to consent.
Rape injuries harder to spot in dark-skinned women
Research found that injuries to exterior genitalia were often missed during forensic exams based on skin tone. This failure to detect injuries can falsely bolster the defense claim that there was no injury and therefore no rape.
About Sex Offenders
Australian study looks at the impact of violence on young people
Researchers found that 1 out of 4 young people has lived through violence at home which may influence the attitudes of the 1 in 7 boys who believe it is okay to force a girl to have sex if she has been flirting .
Teen boys still feel good about pressuring girls to have sex
An Indiana University Medical Center Study found that 40 percent of teen girl surveyed admitted they agreed to sex even though they didn't want to. This data reflects on the acceptability of coercion with the intent to get a girl to comply rather than being a reflection on the character of girls.
Religious beliefs impact on severity of sex crimes
An Australian study of incarcerated sex offenders found that those who maintained religious involvement from childhood to adulthood had more convictions and younger victims than other groups.
Rate of False Rape Reports
False Rape Allegations by Eugene J. Kanin, 1994
Kanin is one of the most commonly offered names when people claim that about 40% of rape reports made to the police are false reports. But his study of one local police force's rape cases has a serious flaw since it ignores that the police's policy regarding polygraphs can contribute to false admissions.
Debunking the debunking of 2 percent false rape report claim (part 1), (part 2)
Analysis of paper titled The Truth Behind Legal Dominance Feminism's "Two Percent False Rape Claim" Figure by Edward Greer which conflates fraudulent rape reports with rape charges in which the defendant was wrongfully charged for any reason including misidentification before Greer uses guesswork based on murder cases to come up with a higher percentage for the second statistic.
Defining unfounded cases
In 2006 the FBI statistics on the rate of unfounded cases, defined as reports where no crime occurred, is higher in rape cases (5.4%) than the overall rate of unfounded cases (1.1%) and this statistic is often misused as proof that the rate of fraudulent rape reports is higher than in non-sex crimes. The problem with this so-called proof is that there is no national standard for what causes a case to be classified as unfounded. Some police departments classify rape cases they don't believe they can prove as unfounded which taints the unfounded rate for rape reports.
