Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure I understand rape at all. I don't see how a woman can be penetrated if she doesn 't cooperate. You just can't thread a moving needle...
Indeed, only 133 out of every 1,000 men tried for rape were convicted in 1972-the lowest rate for any violent crime...
Meanwhile, the incidence of reported rape is increasing at a startling rate...
...California, according to the state police, there is a sexual assault on a woman on the average of once every 20 minutes. Says Massachusetts Representative Jon Rotenberg, who was active in pushing through two rape-reform bills in the state legislature: "The threat of rape affects women of all ages who are afraid to go out at night, to live alone, to ride the subway or wait...
Rewriting Laws. The fact that more women are living alone, going to work at odd hours and are generally more vulnerable accounts for many attacks. Most rapes occur in the black ghettos. In the most recent national survey, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence found in 1967 that in 17 cities, 60% of rapes were committed by black men against black women, 30% by white men against white women, 10% by black men against white women and .3% by white men against black women. These figures may be shifting, however; in Philadelphia, the Center for Rape...