Rape is unique. No other violent crime is so fraught with controversy so enmeshed in dispute and in the politics of gender and sexuality. And within the domain of rape, the most highly charged area of debate concerns the issue of false allegations. For centuries, it has been asserted and assumed that women "cry rape," that a large proportion of rape allegations are maliciously concocted for purposes of revenge and other motives. [There is no way to determine what percentage of rape claims are false.]
David Lisak, et. al., Violence Against Women, December 2010
David Lisak, et. al., Violence Against Women, December 2010
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