Wikipedia False Rape Accusation entry - covers a lot of the issues. Can anyone think of a refereed study that is not included?

Demonspawn · 2011-09-13T23:15:22+00:00

I've never been able to find the publication/paper to this often-cited study:

Dr. Charles McDowell, formerly of the US Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, discovered that 27% of Air Force women who claimed they had been raped later admitted making false accusations of rape. The admission usually came when they were asked to take a lie detector test. With these admitted false accusations he was able to develop 35 criteria distinguishing false accusations and those known to be genuine. Three independent judges then examined the remainder of the cases. Only if all three reviewers independently concluded the original rape allegations were false did they rank them as "false." The total of false allegations became 65%.

If anyone could find it, I think it would be useful to add to Wikipedia.

Also, Kanin did two studies. One was 41% and the other was 50%. IIRC, the 50% study was even a larger sample size than the 41% study.

AntiFeministMedia · 2011-09-13T23:31:33+00:00

Stern needs to be there for the UK, its the most recent document on rape/false rape.

She suggests 8-10% false.

In my opinion, thats base-line, it is almost certainly higher.

But Stern says 8-10%.

eberkimer · 2011-09-14T12:41:26+00:00

It doesn't have anything on the Daphne II project commissioned by the EU several years ago either.

Title	Wikipedia False Rape Accusation entry - covers a lot of the issues. Can anyone think of a refereed study that is not included?
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Date	September 13, 2011 10:12 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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