--"No more than 20% of rapes are reported to the police.” (5)
--“…psychologists and psychiatrists who study sexual assault report that victims frequently react to being raped much the way Kaitlyn Kelly did…when people are raped, the experience is so traumatic that it often causes them to behave in a wide variety of ways that may seem inexplicable.” (70)
--“…the prevalence of false allegations is between 2 percent and 10 percent; that figure was based on eight methodologically rigorous studies.” (109)
--“It is estimated that between 64% and 96% of victims do not report the crimes committed against them….and a major reason for this is [the victim’s] belief that his or her report will be met with suspicion or outright disbelief.” (110)
--“When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.” (110)
--“This suggests that, rather than being the nation’s rape capital, Missoula had an incidence of sexual assault that was in fact slightly less than the national average. That’s the real scandal.” (341)
Did any of these facts or statistics surprise you? Why or why not?
Did they help or hurt the case presented by Jon Krakauer?
--"No more than 20% of rapes are reported to the police.” (5)
--“…psychologists and psychiatrists who study sexual assault report that victims frequently react to being raped much the way Kaitlyn Kelly did…when people are raped, the experience is so traumatic that it often causes them to behave in a wide variety of ways that may seem inexplicable.” (70)
--“…the prevalence of false allegations is between 2 percent and 10 percent; that figure was based on eight methodologically rigorous studies.” (109)
--“It is estimated that between 64% and 96% of victims do not report the crimes committed against them….and a major reason for this is [the victim’s] belief that his or her report will be met with suspicion or outright disbelief.” (110)
--“When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.” (110)
--“This suggests that, rather than being the nation’s rape capital, Missoula had an incidence of sexual assault that was in fact slightly less than the national average. That’s the real scandal.” (341)
Did any of these facts or statistics surprise you? Why or why not?
Did they help or hurt the case presented by Jon Krakauer?