Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions. At least 89% of victims face emotional and...

[DonViejo]

Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions. At least 89% of victims face emotional and physical consequences.

By Andrew Van Dam
October 6 at 7:00 AM

The consequences of sexual assault fall overwhelmingly on the victims.

About 0.7 percent of rapes and attempted rapes end with a felony conviction for the perpetrator, according to an estimate based on the best of the imperfect measures available.

On the other side of the incident, at least 89 percent of victims report some level of distress, including high rates of physical injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and substance abuse.

There has been much wringing of hands about the damage done to American men by accusations of sexual assault, as brilliantly chronicled this week by The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

But any fretting on behalf of those accused of assault should take into account research that shows that millions of victims of sexual assault have paid a serious, measurable price, physically and mentally.



Less than a third of rape incidents are reported to the police, according to an analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network), which combined Justice Department National Crime Victimization Surveys from 2010 to 2014 with other federal data to track what happened to perpetrators.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than-percent-rapes-lead-felony-convictions-least-percent-victims-face-emotional-physical-consequences/?utm_term=.ba02cab1dfa5&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

[donkeypoofed]

1. AT LEAST 89%?!?!?! Who determined that?! A man?!!!

It's fricken 100%. Lord liftin' Jesus

[DonViejo]

2. Did you read the article or just the headline?

[donkeypoofed]

4. Yes -and it said what I'm pissed off about

[DonViejo]

5. If you read the article, how did you miss this?....

Almost 9 out of every 10 sexual assault victims experience some level of distress, with 46 percent experiencing severe distress — a higher number than we see among victims of robbery or aggravated assault, according to an analysis by Justice Department statisticians Lynn Langton and Jennifer Truman of 2009-2012 figures from the massive annual crime victimization survey mentioned above. Other sources place the figure even higher.

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[donkeypoofed]

6. Do you not get what I'm saying?! 100% of sexual assault survivors experience stress FFS

[DonViejo]

7. Foul-mouthed rhetoricians fail to help me "get" anything other than their need to distract.

Have a great day!

[donkeypoofed]

9. Being deliberately obtuse is just annoying.

Listen up - 100% of sexual assault survivors experience stress, Don Viejo. If it had happened to you, you would have a different reaction than antagonizing me.

[WhiteTara]

3. Here's my column on just this topic

http://eureka.news/free-parking-51/

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Rapists are the least likely criminals to ever be charged, prosecuted, much less imprisoned (15 of 16 rapists walk around freely) so most rapes, especially non-stranger rapes, go unreported. While a woman is assaulted every minute in this country (in some countries the rate is even higher) the proportion of rapists to total men is between 6-12 percent, with as many as 25 percent college males assaulting young women. Disturbingly, approximately 64 percent of all rapists become predators.

To be clear, the vast majority of men will never rape anyone. In a 2002 study of 1882 men between ages 18 and 71; 120 of them self-identified as rapists; 44 said they only raped once and the other 76 rapists admitted to 1045 incidences of sexual/physical assault over a four-year period. Most sexual predators are white men (57 percent), over the age of 30 who commit 69 percent of all rapes.

Those statistics give us some idea of who rapes, but the why is more complicated. The basis for rape is unbridled rage, hyper-masculinity, a need to dominate women and inability to empathize with others’ pain. Some rapists have distorted thinking, believing women want to be raped. Many predators were abused as children. For others, a skewed sense of arousal from rape sounds, coupled with deep anger toward women, is their motivation.

[Socal31]

8. It is even far less than that.

One of our collective American shames is what is allowed to go on in prisons.