The absence of sexually related injuries cannot be used in court to infer that rape victims are "making it up," a new study reveals.
Social Sciences
Oct 6, 2023
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When allegations of serial sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein broke in October, they triggered an intense national reckoning over sexual harassment and assault in the workplace and beyond. In the weeks since, ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2017
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He has been called "Stanford's star of statistical inference," and he is responsible for creating a swathe of modern statistics, including the bootstrap. But when Brad Efron first heard about a project to tackle the horrific ...
Mathematics
Jul 17, 2018
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In her first publication in the journal Forensic Science International, Ms. Ruby Dixon demonstrated that bacteria can be transferred between a male and female during sexual intercourse and there is a possibility that bacterial ...
Other
May 17, 2023
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New research in the journal Marketing Science shows that doing something positive for public health can be costly. The researchers say that banning tobacco products means retailers may see as much as a 4% decline in gross ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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Sexism is alive and well in sexual assault research, but this time men are the target. A new study conducted by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and Sam Houston State University debunks a long-standing theory that ...
Social Sciences
Jul 10, 2017
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(AP)—The video game industry, blamed by some for fostering a culture of violence, defended its practices at a White House meeting exploring how to prevent horrific shootings like the recent Connecticut elementary school ...
Other
Jan 12, 2013
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On Oct. 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked a firestorm on social media when she asked her Twitter followers to reply "me too" if they had ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. (Social justice activist Tarana Burke ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2019
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As more police agencies transition to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System for crime reporting, a study of one state's data found that a design flaw in NIBRS, the timings of arrests and human factors can lead ...
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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A federal report that, in the words of its key finding, "sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking are problems in the U.S. Antarctic Program community"—and that efforts "dedicated to prevention [are] nearly absent"—drew ...
Social Sciences
Oct 6, 2022
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