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The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital
HughPickens.com writes: 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.
"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.
I've been touched plenty times nonconsensually, I figured "that's a bit too familiar" (yes I'm a man, yes by women), however I wouldn't place those occurrences nowhere near anything having to do with rape.
You've never heard of "stare rape" have you? There is no end to their victim-hood.
You must have been reading "How to lie with Statistics" on your Statisitics 101 course, when you should have been reading "All men are bastards" on your Wimmins Studies 101 course.
You sexist pig.
Don't forget, "microaggressions" is a thing now. Look or smile at a woman who isn't interested, and you're a gnats whisker away from being a rapist these days.
"Hey, I don't like that guy. Let's all report him through the rape app. We're girls so we'll be believed over him, particularly by the media. The media will even believe us after it's been shown that we were lying because it fits with their narrative."
How is that different from what happens now?
If a real rape happens, you go to the police, and you do it as soon as you can, you don't wait a couple of month (until you fall out with the guy, or until you need a suitable subject for an art project)
Yeah. The college administration will lynch the guy on the college green.
You are such an idiot.
Butt-hurt female detected.
Nah, SJW female who can't get laid because she's ugly enough to make a train take a dirt road.
Or a pajama-boy sitzpinkler wuss trying to ingratiate himself with the ugly SJW female crowd so he can get laid - cuz no real woman can stand is metrosexual pussified nature.
If it is a "rape": if more than one feminist collude together, they still get to ruin a guy's life...
Well given that you're entirely equating feminists with false rape threats, I'm pretty sure you're not going to be engaging in an honest debate in this thread. And lookee: you've been misquoting TFA all over the place too.
You might wish to question why you have an axe to grind and what you hope to achieve by it.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
In the US, a man can be convicted of rape by looking at a woman funny. All it takes is an accusation and the man goes to jail and is pretty much automatically guilty.
Of course, legally, men can be raped too, but in reality, they are never reported. I am curious if this new system will be available to men, and what they will do when they find out that the numbers of men being raped is roughly equal to the number of women. It just doesn't fit with the narrative of the poor defenseless woman being abused by the strong violent men.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?