Monday, August 15, 2011

Reasons on not reporting

Take a look at this (found via frs I guess):

Comments from Scott Berkowitz, President & Founder of the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network

More victims may not be reporting their rapes, but the reasoning has changed over the past few decades. "A generation ago," the reasons were things like, "fear of not being believed; fear of being interrogated about and blamed for their own behavior, and what they were wearing. In short, they feared that they would be the one on trial."

Today, "the perception of many victims has evolved." Now they don't report for these reasons: "they don't want their loved ones to know what happened; they're ashamed themselves; they just want to put it all behind them." Today, "fear and shame of how the police wil treat them" has moved down on the list of reasons victims provide for not officially reporting the crime.


Those are good news....I fear though the reasons for male victims to not report are quite different.

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