False Accusations About False Allegations – On One of the Most Insidious Rape Myths

AntiFeministMedia · 2011-06-21T12:18:10+00:00

Heres my reply (hope the formatting gets corrected, if it gets published):

'Your stats need to be explained in context, otherwise you mislead your audience.

As explained in ‘The Stern Review of how rape is handled by the authorities in England and wales’ 2010 (an independant review carried out by Baroness Stern), 12% of all allegations of rape recorded by the police end in a conviction, which is approximtaley the same as any other crime. Rape doesnt have a low conviction rate compared to other types of crime. The real conviction rate for rape is actually 58% (2008). The mistake many people make is to work out the conviction rate from the police and the prosecution stage, when infact, it should be worked out from the prosecution stage only.

What you’re actually talking about when you quote the 12% figure (or more commonly, the 6% figure) is ‘the attrition rate’ (the other 94% allegations of rape recorded by the police that DO NOT end in a conviction). You must however understand the reasons why the attrition rate is so high, and that is because of the factors at the police stage.

Again, The Stern Review helps us understand the ‘attrition rate’ grey area.

p.44:

‘The 6 per cent figure emerges from putting together a large number of studies of different years. A Home Office study carried out in 2003/4 in eight police forces showed a pattern that is more or less repeated in other studies.

Of 100 cases reported to the police:

15 – Not recorded/retracted/withdrawn (including a baseline figure of 8-10 *provably* false allegations).

20 – Later withdrawn by the complainant.

23 – No action, not enough evidence.

14 – No action for other reasons (police incompetence?).

26 – Suspects charged with rape.

of those 26 charged:

7 – Dont proceed.

7 – No conviction.

6 – Convicition for rape related offence.

6 – Convicted for rape.

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So we can see that there are various factors within the attrition rate which account for the high numbers of allegations that dont reach the courts, including 23 of the 100 that simply dont have enough evidence, 8-10 that are provably false (how many allegations are false in the other factors within the attrition rate but dropped by police without question we dont know).

We wont get the full picture on rape untill Baroness Stern’s recommendation that the British government do a full investigation into the prevalence of false rape allegations, but that doesnt seem to be a priority.

We should also be careful in stating that only 15% of rapes are reported to the police. In Britain, the figure is that only 11% of rape victims report, but that figure is from the British Crime Survey, its womens own subjective experiences, and likely does not represent the true figure, given various factors (too numerous and detailed for this post). The most responsible thing that we could do is omit those British Crime Survey statistics as dubious, and instead focus on those stats we know as factual.

dare5555 · 2011-06-21T19:17:42+00:00

what a totally retarded blog post

Title	False Accusations About False Allegations – On One of the Most Insidious Rape Myths
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	11
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Date	June 21, 2011 8:08 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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