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[John Foubert <>]

The reporter is likely citing data that relates to reporting crime to
the police -- could be the Uniform Crime Report data.  Many
politicians and others, who either don't understand data very well or
who want to take credit for the decline in violent crime, will often
point to reduction in reporting of crime and use it as evidence that
the crimes themselves have actually gone down.  When you look at
anonymous surveys, incidences of rape have remained the same since at
least the 1980s.

John Foubert
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On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Shari Pergricht
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 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This quote from the New York Times appears in the article, “The Myth of Male
> Decline” by Stephanie Coontz on September 29, 2012.
>
>
>
> “Domestic violence rates have been halved since 1993, while rapes and sexual
> assaults against women have fallen by 70 percent in that time.”
>
>
>
> Here is the link to the article:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-male-decline.html?src=recg
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>
>
> Any idea where she might have gotten this statistic?
>
> Shari Pergricht, Counselor, Professor
>
> Harper College
> Student Development I 117
> 1200 W.Algonquin Rd.
> Palatine, Illinois 60067
>
> (847) 925-6393