Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!dmcanzi 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 Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1824 Posted: Sat Nov 2 02:52:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:34:59 EST References: <1181@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 Summary: 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."