Apr. 8th, 2007

Ugh.

Apr. 8th, 2007 06:31 pm
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So it's April which means it's sexual assault awareness and child abuse prevention month, and it's nearly the middle of the month and everything is hectic and I'm frustrated that I haven't made ANY posts regarding these issues until now.

Something I found on RAINN's website (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network): http://www.rainn.org/statistics/punishing-rapists.html

61% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Those rapists, of course, never serve a day in prison according to a statistical average of the past five years.

*If the rape is reported to police, there is a 50.8% chance that an arrest will be made.

*If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution.

*If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of a felony conviction.

*If there is a felony conviction, there is a 69% chance the convict will spend time in jail.

*So, even in the 39% of attacks that are reported to police, there is only a 16.3% chance the rapist will end up in prison.

*Factoring in unreported rapes, about 6% of rapists — 1 out of 16 — will ever spend a day in jail. 15 out of 16 will walk free.


That's just infuriating.

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