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["William O'Donohue, Ph.D." <>]

Marilyn,

Great points.  Any ideas on how to accomplish these? 
And more importantly any precedents for anyone
actually changing these?

Bill
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> I don't think the answer lies in not talking about
> the reporting rates
> in our prevention programming as much as changing
> the reality of the
> situation.  Students and most people in our society
> are aware the rape
> is underreported and convictions are rare whether we
> talk about it or
> not.  Many perpetrators know it because they have
> gotten away with it at
> least once already.
> 
> We need to concentrate on removing the barriers and
> increasing the
> incentives to reporting.  We can teach people that
> if they want to "put
> the rapists behind bars" they need to 
> -believe and support survivors so they are
> encouraged to report
> -place responsibility for the crime on the
> perpetrator not the victim
> -expect a vigorous investigation by police
> -expect a higher prosecution rate from the DA
> -be willing to convict according to the evidence if
> they are on a jury
> -expect sentencing to match the crime.
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> Only when the conviction rates are higher will our
> laws serve as a
> greater disincentive to perpetrators.
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> Marilyn J. Kile, LCSW
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> Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize winning economist has
> an interesting
> economic account of crime.  He looks at incentives
> and risks from the
> criminal's point of view and indicates that at times
> it may seem
> rationale, given these, to commit the crime (this
> supposedly came to him
> once when he parked illegally).  He then talks abt
> how to manipulate
> variables such as surveillance, prosecution rates
> punishment, etc.  to
> reduce crime by making these stronger disincentives.
>  There are
> surveillance expenses (which are key as the criminal
> asks, what is the
> probability of getting caught?) and then punishment
> expenses.
>    
>   Related to rape, there is a well known stat that
> very few are
> reported, fewer are prosecuted, fewer result in
> convictions.  From
> Becker's point of view, we might not want to report
> all these in any
> prevention programming as it seems it could have a
> counterproductive
> role.  Second, what can we do to counter all this? 
> We had an assistant
> district attorney do a videotape in which he talked
> about how he would
> prosecute vigorously and what the max sentences
> were.  We viewed these
> as altering Bandura's outcome expectancies (in his
> social learning
> model).
>    
>   General question: Assuming some validity in
> Becker's analysis, what
> can best be done--practically-- (by campus
> discipline policies,
> disseminating these, role of campus and local police
> etc, rape
> prevention programmers) to try to change a potential
> rapist's economic
> analysis?
>    
>   I ask this, because if the justice/legal system is
> broken along the
> lines of Becker's analysis, it is tough (it would
> place real ceilings)
> to do effective prevention efforts.
>    
>   Thanks,
>    
>   Bill
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William O'Donohue, Ph.D.
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