Americans consistently raping at nearly one victim a minute

[Carygrant]

Another clear sign that American violence has reached unbelievable levels are the rape statistics --- one reported every six and a half minutes and an estimated total perhaps five times as much . One of the sadder topics recently was where people here desperately tried to deny that violence is out of control in America and that the very national psyche is not exhibiting psychosis . Below is an extract from an article in Al Jazeera published today .It makes terrible reading and it is self evident that the country is in acute and full blown crisis . because though a rape isreported only every 6.2 minutes in this country, the estimated total is perhaps five times as high, which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the US. It all adds up to tens of millions of rape victims. We could talk about high school- and college-athleterapes, or campus rapes, to which university authorities have been appallingly uninterested in responding in many cases, including that high school in Steubenville, Notre Dame University, Amherst College and many others. We could talk about the escalating pandemic of rape,sexual assault and sexual harassment in the US military, where Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta estimated that there were 19,000 sexual assaults on fellow soldiers in 2010 alone and that the great majority of assailants got away with it, though four-star general Jeffrey Sinclair was indicted in September for "a slew of sex crimes against women". Never mind workplace violence, let's go home. So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over 1,000 homicides of that kind a year - meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11's casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular terror (another way to put it: the more than 11,766 corpses from domestic-violence homicides since 9/11 exceed the number of deaths of victims on that day and all American soldiers killed in the "war on terror").


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...230765738.html

[Mister D]

Seems to be rubbing off on our vassals.

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One incident of domestic is reported to the police every minute.

On average, 2 women a week are killed by a current or former male partner.

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic...01000100220036

[Mister D]

The latest statistics from the British Crime Survey show that every year in the UK more than 1 million women suffer domestic abuse, more than 300,000 are sexually assaulted and 60,000 are raped. But fewer than one in four people who suffer abuse by their partner and fewer than one in 10 women who experience serious sexual assault report it to the police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...tion-rate-high

[Mister D]

New report shows that the scale of the problem has grown by almost a quarter in 10 years

Almost a million children in Britain are affected by domestic violence, either as victims or witnesses, a new study will reveal tomorrow. The number has increased more than 22 per cent over the past decade.
Some 52 per cent of parents with children under 18 experience frequent or serious conflict, according to YouGov in a poll for the charity 4Children. Of those relatives who have regular clashes, 8 per cent – or 600,000 – are so violent that physical injuries occur.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...k-7584593.html

[Adelaide]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...tion-rate-high

Reporting is rarely worth it. No one will ever have accurate statistics on domestice violence or sexual assault/abuse/rape.

[Chris]

That is terrible.

According to UN data @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics, rate per 100,000 population are

Country	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
United States of America	32.2	32.3	31.8	31.5	30.6	29.8	29.0	27.3
United Kingdom (England and Wales)	25.1	26.4	27.0	25.6	23.4	24.0	27.5	28.8

So, cary, why do you think our countries are so damned violent?


Let us note that your inflammatory title, "Americans consistently raping at nearly one victim a minute," is incorrect inasmuch as not all Americans rape.

[Mister D]

Reporting is rarely worth it. No one will ever have accurate statistics on domestice violence or sexual assault/abuse/rape.

This subject should be treated with a little respect, no? It really shouldn't be occasion for one to indulge his superficial anti-Americanism.

Anyway, yes, I have read that before. A lot of domestic violence goes unreported. It's awful that some young males are socialized to see violence directed toward women as normal. It's inconceivable to me that I would strike a girlfriend.

[Adelaide]

This subject should be treated with a little respect, no? It really shouldn't be occasion for one to indulge his superficial anti-Americanism.

Anyway, yes, I have read that before. A lot of domestic violence goes unreported. It's awful that some young males are socialized to see violence directed toward women as normal. It's inconceivable to me that I would strike a girlfriend.

I stumbled upon a Reddit thread once where males were talking about why they raped someone. A lot of them tried to say it was an accident. It was a pretty disgusting thread to read. Reminded me of Steubenville. I think some males just don't get it, and I think that some just have tempers that are way out of control, but instead of getting help they beat their partners, (or kids).

[Adelaide]

Speaking of which, the Good Men Project posted a number of articles of men talking about how they had raped women and how "nice guys do it, too". Below is part of an article in response by the Guardian - this was a big deal, as GMP lost many editors and writers in protest and also had supporters withdraw support.

So why am I writing about a relatively insular blog fight in my Guardian column? Because it sheds light on just how toxic our culture is when it comes to rape and sexual assault – and how we can fight back.

We actually know quite a bit about why men rape, and especially about the kinds of rapes that the media often calls "date rape" or "acquaintance rape" – rapes where the perpetrator knew the victim, or at least ran in the same social circles. Academics, researchers and sociologists have done in-depth studies on sexual assault and found that it's actually a small number of men who commit large numbers of acquaintance rapes. Most of those men intentionally target intoxicated women. They socially isolate them, ply them with alcohol to incapacitate them and intentionally push their boundaries to make them vulnerable.

These repeat rapists are more likely to have rigid views of gender roles and are more angry at women than the non-rapist men. They perpetrate their crimes intentionally, but use our social narratives about rape to avoid prosecution.

"These are clearly not individuals who are simply in need of a little extra education about proper communication with the opposite sex," says David Lisak, one of the researchers. "These are predators."
And yet, we still image acquaintance rape as "grey" or "murky" (two of the adjectives used by writers at the Good Men Project). There's a social view of rape as a "he said / she said" situation, especially when alcohol is involved. Two people get drunk, the thinking goes, and they make bad decisions, or he didn't know she wasn't consenting, or she regrets it in the morning and "cries rape".

Nice Guys Commit Rape Conversation Isn't Helpful - the Guardian

And no, this is definitely not an American problem - it crosses all countries, all cultures... Just look at the Indian gang rapes. Or the war rape going on in Africa.

It's also not just women; making it entirely about women makes it harder for male survivors, who face even more stigma.

[Mister D]

I stumbled upon a Reddit thread once where males were talking about why they raped someone. A lot of them tried to say it was an accident. It was a pretty disgusting thread to read. Reminded me of Steubenville. I think some males just don't get it, and I think that some just have tempers that are way out of control, but instead of getting help they beat their partners, (or kids).

Felons?