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Originally Posted by peter12

You are aware that there isn't a lot of evidence that sexual assault is under-reported.

Really? The academic literature suggests otherwise:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy....?dopt=Abstract

SA is the most widely underreported violent crime in the United States (Fisher, Daigle, Cullen, & Turner, 2003). Tjaden and Thoennes (2006) reported from the NVAWS data that only 19.1% of women and 12.9 % of men reported rape to the police.

Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) have consistently shown that rape and sexual assault have been the most widely underreported violent crimes. In fact, the 1999 NCVS results revealed that only 28.3%of these crimes were reported to the police (Rennison, 1999). Notably,other research has provided even lower estimates of reporting(Bachman, 1998; Finkelson & Oswalt, 1995; Gartner & Macmillan,1995; Kilpatrick, Edmunds, & Seymour, 1992; Kilpatrick, Saunders,Veronen, Best, & Von, 1987; Koss, 1985; Russell, 1983; Tjaden &
Thoennes, 2000). Similarly, sexual victimizations of college women have gone largely unreported. To illustrate, Koss et al. (1987) found that only 5% of college student rape victims reported their experience to the police.

You also don't seem aware that sexual assault rates have been in free-fall over the past 20 years.

If this is the case, then it contradicts your assertion that reintroducing certain moral values would decrease instances of rape.

You also don't seem aware that there are specific cultural, and regional circumstances in all of the cases you cited, while the example I cited was a clear cognitive error in the justice system.

What kind of cognitive error was that? The lacrosse team got off while, in the cases I've cited, the issue was largely swept under the rug until it gained national media attention.

You need to pursue this further. Some studies have indicated that false reporting could be anywhere between 10 and 50% of all cases.

Then I'm sure you'll have no problem producing these studies.

A recently published comprehensive review of studies and reports on false rape allegations listed 20 sources whose estimates ranged from 1.5% to 90% (Rumney,2006). However, when the sources of these estimates are examined carefully it is clear that only a fraction of the reports represent credible studies and that these credible studies indicate far less variability in false reporting rates.

False report: Applying IACP guidelines, a case was classified as a false report if there was evidence that a thorough investigation was pursued and that the investigation had yielded evidence that the reported sexual assault had in fact not occurred. A thorough investigation would involve, potentially, multiple interviews of the alleged perpetrator, the victim, and other witnesses, and where applicable, the collection of other forensic evidence (e.g., medical records, security camera records). For example, if key elements of a victim’s account of an assault were internally inconsistent and directly contradicted by multiple witnesses and if the victim then altered those key elements of his or her account, investigators might conclude that the report was false. That conclusion would have been based not on a single interview, or on intuitions about the credibility of the victim, but on a “preponderance”of evidence gathered over the course of a thorough investigation.

Among the seven studies that attempted some degree of scrutiny of police classifications and/or applied a definition of false reporting at least similar to that of the IACP, the rate of false reporting, given the many sources of potential variation in findings, is relatively consistent:

• 2.1% (Heenan & Murray, 2006)
• 2.5% (Kelly et al., 2005)
• 3.0% (McCahill et al., 1979)
• 5.9% (the present study)
• 6.8% (Lonsway & Archambault, 2008)
• 8.3% (Grace et al., 1992)
• 10.3% (Clark & Lewis, 1977)
• 10.9% (Harris & Grace, 1999)

Like what? I never, once, said that rapists shouldn't be be punished to the full extent of the law, but let's also remember that the presumption of innocence is probably pretty important too, right?

Which is why I never accused you of it. Let's move on.

Probably less promiscuity and binge drinking.

You'll have to explain the relationship between consensual promiscuity and sexual assault for me.