Several administrative notes:
(1) We are sprucing up the right side of our page to make it easier to navigate. Please note, there is a link for "informative sources" which a lot of people don't know about but, hopefully, our readers will now consult more frequently. I periodically add to it, and I suggest we all pay particular attention to it and recommend additions when we encounter them. I realize I've left out some useful sources, and am trying to add them.
(2) Steve and I are on the lookout for good writers who'd like to make weekly contributions. We were very pleased to recently add Connie as a weekly contributor, and we could stand to add a couple more people. (Snark, I'm looking at you . . . .)
(3) Finally, and most important: we believe this blog is starting to have an impact in the public discourse about rape. We've noticed it in subtle, but discernible, ways. Our message can't be plausibly argued against, and we want to insure, going forward, that it isn't lost in emotion. The issues surrounding false rape claims conjure up a tremendous amount of anger, and our goal is to turn that anger into focused, zealous advocacy. Over the next several months, you will see more and more serious examinations of the issues related to false rape claims. This site is becoming the clearinghouse for all issues related to false rape claims.
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Links: Information About False Rape Claims
- ● RUSSLYN ALI: 'Dear Colleague letter (lowered standard of proof on campus for sex charges, etc.)
- -- Criticisms of 'Dear Colleague' letter
- ● ROY F. BAUMEISTER: Is There Anything Good About Men?
- ●EMILY BAZELON and RACHEL LARIMORE: How often do women falsely cry rape?
- ● CYNTHIA BELL: Rape should be tough to prove
- ●ROY BLACK: Why we should protect those accused of rape
- ●CAMPUS SAFETY AND SECURITY DATA ANALYSIS CUTTING TOOL
- ● PROF. ALAN DERSHOWITZ
- --The trouble with rape prosecutions
- --When the rape rap is phoney
- ●SUSAN ESTRICH: Discussing the Al Gore rape case
- ●FATHERS AND FAMILIES WEB SITE
- ●ZACHARY FOWLE: Accused often guilty until proven innocent
- ●EDWARD GREER: The truth behind legal dominance feminism's 'two percent false rape claim' figure (debunks two percent canard)
- ●BRUCE GROSS: False Rape Allegations: An Assault On Justice (overview of false rape studies)
- ●AYA GRUBER: Law professor says feminists should abandon tough rape laws and the war on crime
- ●STEPHANIE GUTTMANN: How date rape 'education' fosters confusion, undermines personal responsibility, and trivializes sexual violence
- ●PIERCE HARLAN and E. STEVEN BERKIMER: Don't forget victims of false rape accusations
- ●CHAD HERMANN
- --Men are From Wilkinsburg, Women are From Collier
- --One-in-One-Thousand-Eight-Hundred-Seventy-Seven
- --The lessons of Michael Haywood
- ●AMANDA HESS: False rape claims and rape culture
- ●SANDY HINGSTON: The new rules of college sex
- ●JOANNE JACOBS: Rape and the bathroom wall
- ●KC JOHNSON: Durham-in-Wonderland (the Duke Lacrosse blog)
- ●KRISTIN JONES: A curious anomaly at UC Davis
- ●EUGENE J. KANIN: False rape reports
- ● RICHARD KLEIN: An Analysis of of Thirty-Five Years of Rape Reform: a Frustrating Search For Fundamental Fairness
- ●KENNEDY v. LOUISIANA (outlawed death penalty for child rape due, inter alia, to possibility of false claims)
- ●KOSS REPORT
- ●JIM KOURI: Duke rape case all too common
- ●JESSICA LACK: Playing the victim is overplayed
- ●JOHN LEO: A rape accusation at Brown
- ●PROF. ALAN LEVY: Political correctness is alive and well on college campuses
- ●CARRIE L. LUKAS: One in four? Rape myths do injustice, too
- ●HEATHER MacDONALD: Campus rape myth
- ●MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: Recommendation for dismissal of Strauss-Kahn case
- ●CHARLES P. McDOWELL: 'False Alligators' and fuzzy data: a new look at crime analysis
- ●WENDY McELROY
- --Continuing to defame the 'Duke 3' as rapists
- --Duke rape case raises issue of protecting identity of accused
- --False rape charges hurt real victims
- --Rape scandal turns sympathy into skepticism
- --Treat accused, accuser alike
- ●MSNBC REPORT: FALSE ALLEGATION THWARTED BY POLICE CAMERA
- ●NATIONAL COALITION FOR MEN
- --False accusations
- ●NCHERM: THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION RISK MANAGEMENT
- ●SARAH OVERSTREET: Coercion doesn't make sex a crime
- ●DR. TARA J. PALMATIER: Shrink4Men
- ●KATHLEEN PARKER: Picking up after the Duke debacle
- ●RADAR: Respecting accuracy in domestic abuse reporting
- ●RAINN: Reducing risk of sexual assault
- ●RAPE INVESTIGATION HANDBOOK: False claim red flags
- ●ANNA RITTGERS: Sometimes Women Lie About Rape
- ●KATIE ROPHIE: Date rape's other victim
- ●THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE: Dedicated to the defense of liberty and human rights
- ●SCIENCE DAILY: Women Have Not Adapted To Casual Sex, Research Shows
- ●SLATE DOUBLEX GABFEST: Jamie Leigh Jones and other high profile rape cases
- ●CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
- --In making campuses safe for women, a travesty of justice for men
- --Researching the 'rape culture' of America
- ●JONNA M. SPILBOR: What If Kobe Bryant Has Been Falsely Accused? Why the Law of Acquaintance and Date Rape Should Seriously Penalize False Reports
- ●STATE PENALTIES FOR FALSE REPORTING
- ●STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS FOR RAPE
- --National Conference for State Legislatures
- -- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
- ●STERN REVIEW (UK)
- ●SHAUN WEBB: A Motion for Innocence
- ●LAUREN WEEDMAN: I lied about being raped
- ●TOY SOLDIERS WEB SITE
- ●NAOMI WOLF
- --A tale of two rape charges
- --Why is rape different?
- ●CATHY YOUNG
- --Last cry for 'rape crisis' feminism?
- --The noble lie, feminist style
- --Sexual assault on campus--is it exaggerated?
- --The unique power of crying rape
- --Who says women never lie about rape?
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18 comments:
I can barely manage weekly updates on MY OWN BLOG as of now, let alone FRS contributions!
Perhaps, in the future. Actually, let's say definitely in the future. I have a few things I've been sitting on for AGES. I'll get around to them. But I can't contribute weekly.
Snark, look at this blog as a public service. It is not something we do for our personal fulfillment. Think of yourself as being called to service by your nation. This is a blog on a very special mission.
Hey, I do public service for my day job (seriously) ... which usually leaves me exhausted by the time I get home.
Penning an article is a whole different ball game to making comments, or short posts referring to another article - as I'm sure you're aware.
Basically the only time I've got to work on articles is the weekend ... sorry but that's the way it is. Real life comes before the internet. A guy's got to eat and sleep, you know?
'Focused, zealous advocacy' is the perfect phrase! Couldn't have phrased it better.
That is exactly what is needed.
Thanks, Anon.
Snark, you'll have time to sleep when you're dead. Right now, the falsely accused need our help.
I will be of no help to anyone without sufficient rest to collect my thoughts and put them in order. And that ... is THAT!
We can show case, after case, but what we also need is a tab to the right as to how to resolve this issue of False Rape Accusations.
I wanted to ask if it would be to much to add a tab so that when people come to this site, they cans see the documented cases and a path to reform.
For example if you visit the Innocence Project web site it has a link on what needs to change in the judicial system. Please let me know what you think. http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/
Arod99k, you make a very important point. I think we sometimes are so wrapped up in the minutiae that we forget to keep tying it in with the big picture. I promise you, I will focus on that. A thumbnail sketch: The big picture is really four issues, and bunch of smaller issues:
(1) The need for greater deterrence (charging for false rape claims more consistently, and insisting on more serious punishments);
(2) The need for anonymity until conviction (the UK's Stern Review -- included in our "Informative Resources" -- is examining this issue again);
(3) The need for fewer immediate arrests prior to investigations;
(4) Change the mindset that false rape claims are an insignificant problem. If we can convince people that this is a terrible problem (even the Stern Review acknowledges that), we can change some minds. We can get newspaper articles to stop calling accusers "victims." We can get college-sanctioned events to stop saying false claims are a rape "myth." We can stop sexual assault counselors from telling lies about the prevalence of false rape claims. What I want to do is get a high profile billboard that would suggest equivalence between rape and false rape claims. That billboard would say: "Rape is a terrible crime. So is lying about rape." With our name and web address on it.
As discussed off-line, I'm willing to chip in.
As Snark intimated, tho, I can barely keep my own blog updated sometimes.
I have a FRA post that I've been thinking about for a while...I'll send it to you when complete.
We can get college-sanctioned events to stop saying false claims are a rape "myth."
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I think this is an excellent idea. As a college student, I'd support this.
EW, this blog would be honored.
I would say 5) is a group of things that fall under standards of evidence -- everything from not requiring corroboration to the kangaroo courts on college campuses -- that were based upon, and thereby perpetuate, the insane supernatural belief that women never lie about rape. It's difficult to persuade people that false rape accusations are a serious problem when the systems set up to handle rape are largely based on the idea that false accusations do not occur.
Let me know how much you will need for me to pitch in, for the billboard. I am thinking Los Angeles traffic, and we need to hold a press conference.
http://www.advertiseonbillboards.com/
It will cost about 500 to 1000 per month.
I think that we should start a fund, and post a link so that we can make donations.
It's difficult to persuade people that false rape accusations are a serious problem when the systems set up to handle rape are largely based on the idea that false accusations do not occur.
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People are sheep. They just assume that those in authority are honest and competent. But most of they time they are neither.
It's like Warren Buffet said about investing in companies: try to imagine whether or not the company you're investing in could survive being run by a monkey, because chances are that sooner or later a monkey will be running it. You have to make our institutions idiot-proof, just as the founding fathers intended.
Hey wait a minute here, i hear all the time on campus that women and girls NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, lie about rape.
Arod99k, let's look into doing it.
Snark, I just noticed your "that is THAT" comment. That must be a British expression because it has no meaning here in the US.
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