<p>Here’s another interesting article–co-authored by David Lisak–about false reports of sexual assault.
<a href=“http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf</a>
The article says that the research on the frequency of false reporting isn’t very strong, but tends to suggest between 2 and 8 percent. They go on to assert that many people think the frequency of false reporting is much higher than that. I wonder if that’s true. I’ve always assumed that false reports were a small minority of all reports. 2 to 8 percent is pretty many, honestly–certainly enough to worry about the proof problems that I keep perseverating about. The article has some interesting points about what characteristics false reports are likely to have, which might be important in investigating reports of assault.</p>