Up to 25% of rape claims false, according to Department of Justice study

Celda · 2013-11-19T03:47:29+00:00

Those are not false claims. Those are mistaken claims - that is, where a rape did happen but an innocent man was arrested or jailed.

Please read articles carefully before accepting them as fact.

See my FAQ about false rape claims for more info, Section C in particular:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1o74n7/facts_and_statistics_about_false_rape_claims_a/

bamdastard · 2013-11-19T06:30:36+00:00

So if 60% of rape claims go unreported and 25% of the reported ones are fake. How many unreported false rape claims happen every year?

2013-11-19T02:15:03+00:00

The study documents 28 cases which, "with the exception of one young man of limited mental capacity who pleaded guilty," consist of individuals who were convicted by juries and, then, later exonerated by DNA tests. At the time of release, they had each served an average of 7 years in prison.

But it's worth it because doing anything else will have a chilling effect on reporting of legitimate rape, right?

Several years ago, I tried to track down the origin of this much-cited stat. The first instance I found of the figure was in Susan Brownmiller's book on sexual assault entitled "Against Our Will" (1975). Brownmiller claimed that false accusations in New York City had dropped to 2 percent after police departments began using policewomen to interview alleged victims.

Elsewhere, the two percent figure appears without citation or with only a vague attribution to "FBI" sources. Although the figure shows up in legislation such as the Violence Against Women Act, legal scholar Michelle Anderson of Villanova University Law School reported in 2004, "no study has ever been published which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the two percent false rape complaint thesis."

In short, there is no reason to credit that figure.

No surprise there.

Ripowal1 · 2013-11-19T03:15:55+00:00

"First, the category of 'false accusations' does not distinguish between accusers who lie and those who are honestly mistaken. Nor does it indicate that a rape did not occur, merely that the specific accused is innocent."

JaydenPope · 2013-11-19T07:06:48+00:00

Published May 02, 2006

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2013-11-19T02:46:12+00:00

But women don't lie about rape, shitlords!

Title	Up to 25% of rape claims false, according to Department of Justice study
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