Offensive article blames news media coverage of false rape claims for underreporting of rape

getthefuckoutofhere · 2012-01-07T15:36:41+00:00

remember when they spent all this time clarifying that Dominique Strauss Kahn was actually completely innocent of any wrongdoing

to counter the hours of footage of him dishevelled and handcuffed?

neither do i

AntiFeministMedia · 2012-01-07T16:42:35+00:00

In the UK, they think that 8-10% of all rape claims are provably false allegations, so, the woman recants, or there is evidence from CCTV or mobile phone video that she is not telling the truth, etc.

Now, what percentage are false allegations that cant be proven to be false, thats the real question.

So its 8-10% + ?

The Stern Review, not only helps us to understand where the '6% conviction rate' myth has come from, but it helps us see what is going on in the all important police stage, as it shows us figures from early 2000's:

The Stern Review, p.44

Out of every 100 cases reported:

15 Not recorded/retracted/withdrawn.

20 Later withdrawn by the victim ('complainant' is a better term, as its yet to be proven that a crime has taken place).

23 No action not enough evidence.

14 No action for other reasons.

26 suspect charged with rape.

Of those 26 that go to prosecution:

7 Dont proceed.

7 No conviction.

6 Conviction for rape related offence.

6 Conviction for rape. (this is not the 'conviction rate', as this 6% figure is derived from both police and prosecution stages, when it should only be calculated from the prosecution stage. The figure stated by Stern as the rape conviction rate, is 55% on average, 58% in 2008).

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So how many false allegations that cant be proven to be false are within those segments at the police stage above?

8-10% + ?.

Nobody knows.

Baroness Stern recommends the British government carry out a full review on the issue of false allegations, and yet in the governments response to that document, there is no mention at all of false allegations, let alone the possibility of a study.

I think they're afraid of what they might find. They are afraid of even acknowledging the problem.

DevinV · 2012-01-07T17:57:01+00:00

The most offensive thing is really that news media puts slant on an allegation before a single scrap of evidence has been admitted at trial to make the man look guilty, and then when these high profile rape accusations turn out to be false accusations the news media invariably tries to silently drop the issue like a rock not making sure to clarify that the man or men they've been portraying as rapists are in fact innocent.

2012-01-07T14:49:15+00:00

So, what, does media coverage of insurance fraud lead to fewer actual claims?

linearThinker · 2012-01-07T16:22:53+00:00

Gabby Santos, a program coordinator with the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force, said fabricated rape reports are few and far between. But media attention on such cases may make it seem like false rape reports are more common than they are, Santos said.

The real lesson here is about feminist intellectual dishonesty (or abject stupidity). Feminist commonly trot out the fact that the constant media stories about violence against women (or other female tribulations) are proof of how prevalent it is, and the absence of male equivalent stories is proof of their rarity. But when we hear a lot about false rape allegatons? It's just the media focusing too much on a rare phenomenon, certainly not proof that they are common! Everything and its opposite is 'proof' of what feminists already believe.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-01-08T02:26:05+00:00

Shifting accountability from the perpetrator to the victim? How?

Also, since when did a person not have to demonstrate with evidence that someone slighted them?

Title	Offensive article blames news media coverage of false rape claims for underreporting of rape
Author	PierceHarlan
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Comments	6
Date	January 7, 2012 2:43 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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