Stalkers and rapists act knowing that they have approximately zero risk of getting caught. And if caught, a less than one percent chance of conviction. > The b

Stalkers and rapists act knowing that they have approximately zero risk of getting caught. And if caught, a less than one percent chance of conviction. > The breakdown between the modus operandi of the rapists also tells us a lot about how wrong the script is. Of all 120 admitted rapists, only about 30% reported using force or threats, while the remainder raped intoxicated victims. This proportion was roughly the same between the 44 rapists who reported one assault and the 76 who reported multiple assaults. > If we could eliminate the men who rape again and again and again, a quarter of the violence against women and children would disappear. > The vast majority of the offenses are being committed by a relatively small group of men, somewhere between 4% and 8% of the population, who do it again … and again … and again. That just doesn’t square with the notion of innocent mistake. Further, since the repeaters are also responsible for a hugely disproportionate share of the intimate partner violence, child beating and child sexual abuse, the notion that these predators are somehow confused good guys does not square with the data. Most of the raping is done by guys who like to rape, and to abuse, assault and violate. If we could get the one-in-twelve or one-in-25 repeat rapists out of the population (that is a lot of men — perhaps six or twelve million men in the U.S. alone) or find a way to stop them from hurting others, most sexual assault, and a lot of intimate partner violence and child abuse, would go away. Really. [0] And: > The result is a criminal justice system that shows an unexamined bias toward accused sexual predators—particularly those from the dominant race and class—by protecting them in advance from punishments that (in practice) very rarely materialize. And this is a hypercorrection that occurs again and again even though false claims remain statistically minuscule, and even though less than 1 percent of rapes result in a conviction. [1] 0 - https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/ https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-pr... 1 - https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/cockblocking-rapists-is-a-moral-obligation-or-how-to-stop-rape-right-now/ https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/cockblockin...