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According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services. Now Natasha Singer reports at the NYT that in an effort to give students additional options — and to provide schools with more concrete data — a nonprofit software start-up in San Francisco called Sexual Health Innovations has developed an online reporting system for campus sexual violence. One of the most interesting features of Callisto is a matching system — in which a student can ask the site to store information about an assault in escrow and forward it to the school only if someone else reports another attack identifying the same assailant. The point is not just to discover possible repeat offenders. In college communities, where many survivors of sexual assault know their assailants, the idea of the information escrow is to reduce students' fears that the first person to make an accusation could face undue repercussions.
"It's this last option that makes Callisto unique," writes Olga Khazan. "Most rapes are committed by repeat offenders, yet most victims know their attackers. Some victims are reluctant to report assaults because they aren't sure whether a crime occurred, or they write it off as a one-time incident. Knowing about other victims might be the final straw that puts an end to their hesitation—or their benefit of the doubt. Callisto's creators claim that if they could stop perpetrators after their second victim, 60 percent of campus rapes could be prevented." This kind of system is based partly on a Michigan Law Review article about "information escrows," or systems that allow for the transmitting of sensitive information in ways that reduce "first-mover disadvantage" also known to economists as the "hungry penguin problem". As game theorist Michael Chwe points out, the fact that each person creates her report independently makes it less likely they'll later be accused of submitting copycat reports, if there are similarities between the incidents.
(Score: 5, Informative) by sjwt on Saturday November 21 2015, @08:14AM
And yet, one in six college attending women report having committed acts against male partners that would count as rape if the sexes were reversed..
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1 in 6 college attending women report having used "Physical force, coercion OR a weapon to obtain sexual contact with a male partner." - Anderson, P. B. (1998). Women's motives for sexual initiation and aggression. In P. B. Anderson & C. Struckman-Johnson (Eds.), Sexually aggressive women: Current perspectives and controversies, (pp. 79-93.)
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 21 2015, @08:30AM
Non-paywalled link to the Anderson article:
http://www.ejhs.org/volume7/Anderson/text.html [ejhs.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @01:47PM
And of course when you read the study it doesn't say what sjwt claims it does.
It wasn't a study to identify what women do, it was a study to identify why women do what they do. There was no attempt to make the sample representative of the college age women. All they cared about was looking for correlations between attributes (like having been an abuse victim, age of first using a telephone to call a boy, etc) and sex initiation behaviors.
Citing this study says nothing about the prevalence of women rapists and everything about sjwt's persecution complex.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @12:18PM
Hehe, guess which one of the three it was... Thanks for the laugh.