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...same frequency as those of any other crime. But these false accusations are not motivated by morning after regrets; morning after regrets lead to awkward dining hall interactions—they do not generate the time and energy necessary to pursue a rape charge. Announcing you have been the victim of rape does not raise your social status; there is no special incentive to falsely claim you were a rape victim. Any false accusations of a crime have their victims. As Caldwell noted, it is indeed unfortunate that the Duke players lost a year of playing lacrosse and attending college...
Caldwell’s statements reveal a much broader mindset about sexual violence. By focusing only on victims, many people tacitly excuse the attackers from responsibility. Rape cases often become interrogations of victims, their social lives, and the relational circumstances surrounding the rapes. Victims are forced to defend their own innocence because of the widespread attitudes Caldwell’s column advocates. Whether a victim is a stripper, wears short skirts, or attends Harvard University is irrelevant; all accusations need to be treated seriously. To do otherwise suggests that certain classes of women deserve or invite the attacks that take...
...Tech, Charles Steger, should resign. But not because of the school's rather slow realization Monday morning that a demented murderer was on campus. Mass shootings are infinitesimally rare. As the Department of Justice points out here, in 2004 less than .1% of all homicides involved five or more victims. The rate of homicides involving more than two victims has been under 1% since at least the mid-'70s (although the rate of two-victim murders - like Cho Seung-Hui's first two killings in Ambler Johnston Hall - has increased over the years). In other words, statistically speaking, the cops...
...Police still have not determined whether Cho had a real or imagined connection to the female victim in the first of the day's two shooting incidents. Emily Hilscher. Neither of the women he allegedly stalked was among his victims...
...Following the shootings, Hall spent three days in a hospital and a month on crutches. Through a victim's advocate, he found counseling. He was having trouble with nightmares, survivor's guilt and "a fear of people in general." His therapy lasted about six months...