| Something most people already knew |
[02 Oct 2009|11:13am] |
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Few in sex cases convicted
Findings from a two year study of adult sexual violations between July 2005 and December 2007 (yeah, that's two and a half years, oh well). The overall conviction rate from 1955 recorded cases was 13% and the article notes that only about one in ten sexual violation offenses are reported - making the total conviction rate between 1-2%.
Interestingly enough, I read an article about false rape claims a couple of months ago that indicated that the most accurate study the author had found put the rate of false claims at about 2%, pretty much the same as any other crime. Other studies put it as higher, but they have less rigorous standards for how one defines a false claim - they noted one district where law enforcement had ulterior motive to get victims to drop cases due to policies, for example, and if you badger a traumatised woman enough of course she's going to back down.
Two percent of thirteen percent, btw, is a very, very small number. 0.2% or thereabouts. And that's assuming the same conviction rate for false claims as for legitimate ones.
So basically, if you and forty nine of your friends all go out and rape someone, only five or six of you will be reported, and one of you might be convicted.
But psh, feminism. Who needs it?
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