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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape statistics
Message-ID: <1824@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 02:52:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 02:52:50 1985
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1181@decwrl.UUCP> merrill@raja.DEC writes:
>If you read the FBI Crime report for the year, multiply by 30 (years per
>generation) and divide by the number of women you should come close
>to 25%, BUT many women DO get raped multiple times but that data is
>not available generally.  Sooo I would credit the 1 in 10 number more
>than the 1 in 5 number.  

You are assuming that, while 9/10 of the women don't get raped, the
1/10 that do are raped an average of 2.5 times each.  That's a dilly
of an assumption.  

For this to be true, victims of previous rapes would have to be 6 times
likelier to be raped again than women who have never been raped.  This
would seem to imply that the victims are "asking for it" to a degree
that even lifelong, hardened MCPs would have difficulty accepting.
-- 
David Canzi		"Permission is not freedom."