Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pixdoc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!wjh12!pixel!pixdoc!vsh From: vsh@pixdoc.UUCP (Steve Harris) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape statistics Message-ID: <18@pixdoc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:14:37 EST Article-I.D.: pixdoc.18 Posted: Wed Nov 6 11:14:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:35:06 EST References: <1181@decwrl.UUCP> <1824@watdcsu.UUCP> <8@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Pixel Systems Lines: 15 >>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.... >...A woman who lives and/or works in a >high crime area is much more likely to be raped than one who doesn't... I have heard that most rapes are by "friends and relatives", not the classic "dark alley knife wielding fiend". Because the victim does not confront the rapist later (often denies it to herself), the rape recurs. -- Steve Harris | {allegra|ihnp4|cbosgd|ima|genrad|amd|harvard}\ Pixel Systems Inc. | !wjh12!pixel!pixdoc!vsh 300 Wildwood Street | Woburn, MA 01801 | 617-933-7735 x2314