False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases

Lisak, David; Gardinier, Lori; Nicksa, Sarah C.; Cote, Ashley M.

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“…Moreover, based on an estimated 12 percent of student victims reporting to the police (Kilpatrick, 2007) and 6 percent of police reports involving false allegations (Lisak et al 2010 We view these results as contributing to a more complete understanding of the non-pecuniary costs associated with college football. Moreover, by documenting how specific contexts modify the effects of football games on the incidence of rape, and what types of rapes are affected most, our results can inform awareness and prevention efforts.…”

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College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

Lindo¹,

Siminski²,

Swensen³

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 9700 February 2016 ABSTRACT College Party Culture and Sexual AssaultThis paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an identification strategy that exploits plausibly random variation in the timing of Division 1 football games. The estimates indicate that these events increase daily reports of rape with 17-24 year old victims by 28 percent. The effects are driven largely by 17-24 year old offenders and by offenders unknown to the victim, but we also find significant effects on incidents involving offenders of other ages and on incidents involving offenders known to the victim.JEL Classification: I23, K42

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College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

Lindo¹,

Siminski²,

Swensen³

2015

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“…A baseless case is a case that does not meet the legal criteria for the crime [9]. Thus, also if the classification process is flawless then some proportion of cases would still not be false allegations in the sense that the complainant deliberately tried to mislead everyone.…”

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“…Rumney [4] concluded that because of methodological problems it is impossible to use the studies that were reviewed to estimate the true prevalence rate of false allegations of rape. The controversy concerning the prevalence of false allegations persists [8][9][10]. …”

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The Prevalence of False Allegations of Rape in the United States from 2006-2010

Zutter¹,

Horselenberg²,

Koppen³

2017

J Foren Psy

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False allegations constitute a public problem since they result in a waste of time spent by the police and justice departments, and may cause public and individual harm. A prevalence study was conducted to obtain recent and valid figures of the prevalence of unfounded allegations of rape and unfounded allegations of other crimes. The most recent published prevalence figures on false allegations in the U. S. are from 1992. At the time cases were cleared by labeling cases as unfounded crimes. Since then guidelines to label a case as unfounded have become more strict. To test whether the new guidelines issued by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) were followed we compared the current results with the prevalence rate of false and baseless allegations of rape before the guidelines were issued. Over a five-year period, from 2006 until 2010, the prevalence of false and baseless allegations of offences in the U. S. was studied. We found that the new guidelines were followed by law enforcement agencies. We performed a Kruskal Wallis Non Parametric Chi Square test of Goodness-of-fit on the proportions of false and baseless allegations to test whether the proportions were equal for all offence types. False and baseless allegations were not equally distributed across offence types X 2 (7, N=8000)=120.19, p<0.0001. The post hoc test revealed significant differences with the group average of 1.16% for false and baseless allegations of murder X 2 (1, N=1000)=39.94, p<0.0001, false and baseless allegations of rape X 2 (1, N=1000)=171.94, p<0.0001, and false and baseless allegations of robbery X 2 (1, N=1000)=187.78, p<0.0001. Approximately 5% of the allegations of rape were deemed false or baseless. That was at least five times higher than for most other offence types.Keywords: Crime; Allegations; True; False; Rape; FBI; Unfounded The Prevalence of False AllegationsNot all allegations of crimes are truthful. Sometimes people who present themselves as victims make false claims of victimization. A false allegation is defined as an allegation of a crime filed by a complainant to the police while in reality no crime has occurred, the complainant is not a victim of the alleged crime.False allegations constitute a public problem since they result in a waste of time spent by the police and justice departments, and may cause public and individual harm. It seems imperative to know the prevalence of a problem in order to contain or solve the problem. In other words, the prevalence is a prerequisite to outline an effective policy to eliminate false allegations as much as possible.False allegations of rape, in contrast with other offence types, received a lot of attention from scholars. There is a heated debate about false allegations of rape with extreme claims at both ends. Brownmiller [1] claims that almost all allegations are true, and Kanin [2] that all allegations are false.Whereas Greer [3] claims Brownmiller's false rape figure is untrue since this figure was not based on...

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“…False accusations have been repeatedly shown to be rare (e.g. Lisak et al 2010) and yet most processes seem to be set up to protect against them more than to support victims. If you take one thing away from this article it's this: if a young astronomer comes to you with a story of harassment, you should not in that moment express doubt, nor ask for any proof, but instead trust the process to find the truth and offer your support and sympathy.…”

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Women of the future in the RAS

Masters¹

2016

A&G

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After this year of looking back and celebrating 100 years of women in the RAS, we now ask: what might the future hold? Extrapolating current trends, when might we expect equality in the genders of RAS members, speakers at meetings, award winners and more? Ultimately, when might we stop needing to talk about women in astronomy at all -when it will be as irrelevant to the conversation about astronomy as being a male astronomer is?I heard all imaginable jokes about being a "woman of the future" when I won the science category of the Women of the Future Awards in 2014, but I think it's a good title to focus on how women stand in the RAS, now and into the near future. At the 2014 Women of the Future Awards ceremony, the most thought--provoking acceptance speech imagined a time when awards celebrating successful young women in the UK were no longer needed; as I write this I share that sentiment. I can't help but wish we weren't still having these same conversations.

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False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases

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College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

The Prevalence of False Allegations of Rape in the United States from 2006-2010

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