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Bucky

(54,041 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2013, 07:28 PM Jan 2013

Depressing graph about rape

The next time some dick is all, "...but what about all those false rape accusations?" show him this excellent (albeit very sad) graph from The Enliven Project, which used data from Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey and FBI reports to show just how often rapes are reported (not often) and how often rapists go to jail (even less often.)

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Depressing graph about rape (Original Post) Bucky Jan 2013 OP

I worked with teen sex offenders for 13 years- digonswine Jan 2013 #1

k and r niyad Jan 2013 #2

digonswine

(1,485 posts)

1. I worked with teen sex offenders for 13 years-

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 08:33 PM

Jan 2013

the trend with them was that "Yeah, like victims can't lie"--they were all guilty, not one was not. Not one, among hundreds I worked with.
They seemed to agree that victims tended to lie, though.

niyad

(113,498 posts)

2. k and r

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 02:41 AM

Jan 2013

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