Re: Frequent false reports: where's the evidence? (was: Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Waldo Weaver) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> > OTOH, the SBRCC do use the oft-quoted FBI/2% claim. I've never been 
> > able to track this figure back to its origins, though I've seen it in 
> > many reputable sources. (It may be a misreading of two separate studies 
> > mentioned cheek-by-jowl in "Against Our Will" - she doesn't make the 
> > claim, but her online critics seem to think she does.)
> 
> A very thorough, and heavily annotated investigation of the origin of
> the 2% figure from the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review:
> http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v33-issue3/greer.pdf

Thanks! I look forward to reading it.

> A criticism of the 2% figure, with a response from Susan Brownmiller:
> http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/refbrownm.html
> http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/commentary/brownback.html

This is what I meant above when I said Brownmiller's "online critics 
seem to think" she makes the 2% claim - in fact, there are two separate 
figures in the quoted para: the FBI figures, and the New York City 
figure, which was 2%. Brownmiller isn't making the claim attributed to 
her in that archived posting.

Yours,
- Kate Orman