The fear of getting falsely accused of rape just doesn’t compare to the fear of an actual rapist getting away with his or her crime. Statistics from Justice Department, National Crime Victimization Survey: 2006-2010 and FBI reports. NOTE (2/6/13): As so many people continue to visit this site and share this convo-graphic, we’ve updated this post to include the context from this post.
As a wife, mom, survivor, and regular person until Monday morning, I am overwhelmed and astounded by the reaction and response to the “Truth About False Accusation” infographic, and encouraged by the dialogue that has emerged as a result of it. Thank you to each and every person who shared it, debated it, loved it, and hated it.
We accept and encourage debate on this and any future infographics released by The Enliven Project. Given the massive amount of media coverage and online discussion about it, I wanted to provide some additional – and more well-thought out – context to the purpose of the graphic and The Enliven Project, as well as to address a bit of criticism about the data we used.
The purpose of this graphic is to compare (primarily men’s) fear of being falsely accused of being a rapist to the many challenges around reporting, prosecuting, and punishing rapists.
Two key figures drive that point home:
- A reporting rate of 10%
- A false reporting rate of 2%
The other decision we made was to present data that fell within documented ranges, rather than reflect the findings of a particular report, because of the inherent challenge in collecting data on this issue. Said another way: at the moment, an argument could be made that every source is flawed in some way. The reason we pursued a composite approach instead of relying on one study was exactly to spark discussion about the underlying data and definitions, and – perhaps most importantly – the current challenges in data collection.
For example – here are a handful of challenges that we encountered while putting together the infographic and, as a result, some limitations of the infographic itself:
- The federal data provides arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates on forcible rape only, NOT other forms of sexual violence.
- Until 2012, the federal definition of rape was limited to penetration of a vagina by a penis. Therefore, 100% of rapists would have to be men.
- The difference between a false report (how data is counted and being falsely accused (the fear at the individual level). Lonesway, Archembault, and Lisak, the authors of the article from The National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women, use the following definition: A false report is a report of a sexual assault that did not happen (i.e., it was not completed or attempted).” The report goes on to discuss the challenges of defining whether the assault in fact didn’t happen or whether investigators or prosecutors decide that it did not happen based “simply on their own views of the victim, the suspect, and their credibility.” Individuals who are falsely accused of rape outside of the justice system would not be counted in this figure.
Despite these admitted flaws, here’s what’s not disputable:
- Rape and sexual violence continue to impact men, women, and children across the country and around the world.
- Fewer than 100% of rapes are reported to the police because social, emotional, and legal barriers still exist.
- Sexual violence has an enormous emotional and financial cost to our society, and many bystanders don’t even know they are being affected by it when in reality, they are.
- Individuals, foundations, employers, and the government do not invest deeply enough in awareness, prevention, intervention and recovery.
- Our justice system isn’t perfect. Sometimes innocent people are charged. And sometime guilty people go free. That doesn’t mean that men and women aren’t being raped and sexually assaulted. It means there are improvements that can be made all around.
Finally, there is something that this graphic does NOT represent. And that is the impact of false accusation on an individual’s life. The purpose of the graphic was to put the FEAR of false accusation in perspective, not to discount the very real impact that a false report or false accusation has on someone’s life.
We certainly plan future infographics and have learned from this overwhelming and humbling response that visualizing these issues can be quite powerful, and careful sourcing and stating assumptions up front is also important. Our primary goal – and that of The Enliven Project as a whole – was to start a conversation that desperately needs to be had in our country. We’ll let others decide whether or not we were successful on this front. However, in the future, the kind of analysis and background information provided here and below will be made available at the time the infographic is released so that there are no misconceptions about our intent and message.
Breakdown of Graphic and Statistics
1,000 Rapists (technically 1,000 rapes as pointed out by Slate, a distinction we missed in an effort to bring some reality to the numbers.)
Of those 1,000 rapes, we applied a 10% reporting rate (100)
- Source: http://www.hmic.gov.uk/media/without-consent-20061231.pdf
Page 8: “Estimates from research suggest that between 75 and 95 per cent of rape crimes are never reported to the police.” - Source:http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245 (2011 Criminal Victimization Survey): Reported to the police (US): 27% in 2011, 49% in 2010
Of those 100 reported rapes, we show 30 faced trial (this includes those that were jailed). This is 30%. Faced trial, for the purpose of this graphic, uses composite data reflecting the terms prosecution, arrested, and faced trial.
- RAINN (http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates) lists for 46 rapes, 9 get prosecuted. This is 19.5%.
- Tjaden, P., & Thoennes, N. (2006). Extent, nature and consequences of rape victimization: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. – 37% of reported rapes are prosecuted
- Patterson, D., & Campbell, R. (2010). Why rape survivors participate in the criminal justice system. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(2), 191-205. – 14-18% of reported rapes lead to prosecution
- http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/clearances - 40% clearance rate in 2010 (arrested or cleared by exceptional means)
Of the 100 rapes brought to trial, 10 are jailed. This is 10%. Or, of the 30 rapes prosecuted, 10 are jailed. This is 33.3%.
- When considered 10% of the 100 reported rapes: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st229?pg=11Table A-4 in 1997, Probability of prison for rape is 9%.
- When considered 10% of the 100 reported rapes: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/fdluc06.pdf
page 11 in 2006: 62% of felony rape defendants are convicted, 50% of a felony
page 12 in 2006: most severe sentence of convicted offenders
For rape: 80% incarcerated. Combining these, 0.62 * 0.8 = 0.496 (49.6%) - When considered as a portion of prosecuted rapes that are jailed: RAINN (http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates) lists for 9 prosecuted rapes, 3 are jailed. This is 33.3%.
Of the 100 rapes reported, 2 are false accusations. The 2% false accusation rate was applied only to the number of reported rapes.
- Source: http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf page 2: “when more methodologically rigorous research has been conducted, estimates for the percentage of false reports begin to converge around 2-8%.”
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Nice graphic, but not sure how informative it is. As some others have commented it doesn’t relate to gender or location and it isn’t clear where the data has come from.
This is great. I have a lot of time for infographics and the understanding they bring. However, this needs improvement.
Firstly, citation needed. I see that you’ve detailed the study on this site but put it at the bottom of the image as well so when the graphic gets reposted and goes viral it’s always there. And have a link to the study that the stats actually come from being as specific as possible.
Add a title to your infographic. It’s obvious to see here but once reposted what does it explain.
Also what is the dataset? Is this covering the 4.5% of the world’s population that is the US or is it global? Western civilization? Countries that report these stats? The highest hitting city of the US? Add this info to your title.
How many figures are there in the rapists set that fall outside of reported / wrongly reported? There’s a lot so it’s hard to tell. Add a number to the graphic.
I find the mixing of factual and estimated data a little unsettling, it’s easy to know how many reported cases there are but unreported cases? How do you gauge that? Should it be detailed that it is estimated or do you expect people to realise this?
All the best.
Thanks D. Trump. I had the same reaction: “great!…. Ok but who are we talking about here?”
This is sobering and important, if true, and I’d like to share this on my social networks or write about it on my blog. But how do they know of so many rapes if they aren’t reported?
Amy: There have been numerous studies done where they asked women about prior encounters; often they didn’t use the term rape, but rather the legal definition (ie, sex without consent, whether through force, intimidation or intoxication). Comparing the results of those surveys compared to the results of actual rape reports yields percentage of unreported rapes.
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Could you cite the specific source for this infographic? I was able to find the info on the total number of sexual assaults vs. the number reported but I was unable to verify the other data points.
Also, could you explain the details of why, of the 50 that faced trial, only 10 were jailed? Did the other 40 get probation? Were they found innocent? If they were found innocent, why do they not go into the “falsely accused” category?
those people tried and not found guilty are found not guilty, but they are not found innocent. Big difference. Not guilty just means that there was not enough evidence to convict or convince the jury
To assume that someone found not guilty is actually guilty of the crime is incredibly dishonest.
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And how exactly does one get a number that great to represent rapists? I doubt people are lining up at the census bureau to join the list of rapists.
“Unreported rape” is unquantifiable. So your rapist figure is just arbitrary; it’s an estimation.
Also, under the law a “rapist” who has been reported, faced trial, and found not guilty, *is not a rapist*. Sorry if that bothers you, but there are two types of legal errors: Type one involves the guilty party getting off innocent; type two involves an innocent person being incarcerated. Most civilized countries make it their job to avoid type 2s at all cost, even if that cost is a type 1. This is a good thing. And it’s not going to change any time soon.
Not going to change soon? We’ve already reached a society that believes in Guilty until Proven Innocent, and Innocence is often a failure of justice and the perpetrator got away with the crime they were accused of.
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I have mentioned this elsewhere on your site, but the comment appears to have disappeared so this seems like the best place for it. The data that you cite here: show that you intend to illustrate a 2% false-report rate. Since there are 1000 person-icons here, that should mean that 20 of the icons are colored black. Right now you are illustrating a 0.2% false report rate, which contradicts your cited data. I hope this can be corrected while everyone is still hot-linking this image and before it starts being mirrored. I’d hate for the actual data to be lost in the noise of people arguing about whether MRAs are starting some misinformation campaign to derail what would otherwise be a very useful discussion.
For everyone commenting that there are too few “false reports”, because it is 2 out of 1000, which does not accurately represent the 2-20% (depending on your data) count, you need to take it out of the REPORTED values.
Lemme break it down for you.
100 REPORTED incidences were reported
2 REPORTED reports were false.
That is within the 2% that some reports estimate.
While some may not agree with this figure – personally I have issues with how the figure is represented, sometimes the falsely accused goes to prison (it is rare though….it is difficult enough to get a conviction when the individual IS guilty), and the way the infographic is set up is designed for impact, not clarity…. but it shouldn’t take you more than a moment to realize it is not intimating a 0.2% false rape number.
Anyone with a brain should be able to reason this out.
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Why are the ‘rapists’ on the left 30 pixels in height, while the ones on the right (red) only 24 pixels in height? Is that some subliminal thing? I don’t see how it could’ve been unintentional–while creating the infographic, a mere copy and paste process of the iconography would yield the exact same size with each item….
There are decent studies (if not ideologically biased) that place false accusations as high as 11 percent. This graph is misleading.
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All rape is a horrible thing to deal with. It would appear that all the figures here are men, while not all victims of rape are women, not all rapists are men either. 13% of men report having been raped or sexually accosted, 1 in 21 say their attacker was female, usually none are taken seriously, and women are almost never charged at all. *The FBI reports consistently put the number of “unfounded” rape accusations around 8%. So these numbers must be questioned.
This is excellent, and profoundly distressing. Thank you so much for creating it.
Amy Logan wrote: >”But how do they know of so many rapes if they aren’t reported?”
The source given was “Statistics from Justice Department, National Crime Victimization Survey: 2006-2010 and FBI reports.”
The link leads to “Victimizations not reported to the police 2006-2010″. A summary is here: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/press/vnrp0610pr.cfm
stating: “Although serious violent crime was generally less likely to go unreported to the police than simple assault, a higher percentage of rape or sexual assault (65 percent) than simple assault (56 percent) victimizations went unreported over the five-year period.”
This corresponds to a 35% rate of report. The graphic assumed 10%, which is considerably lower. The source for the lower value is not cited.
Suggested stats to include/reference:
http://m.vaw.sagepub.com/content/16/12/1318.full.pdf
See of note the resultant window of percentages of false accusations; also, to support others who’ve previously noted, resolving the mixing of estimated & factual data, in addition to increased geographic clarity regarding the statistical picture, only add more intellectual honesty and credibility to the graphic.
Why did you make the men on the left big and then shrink them in size as you went to the right of the graph? Was that to make it look worse than the data actually suggests?
Thank you for making this chart. Does this report include a correction for the number of rapes per offender? for example http://www.wcsap.org/sites/www.wcsap.org/files/uploads/webinars/SV%20on%20Campus/Repeat%20Rape.pdf
It is more important that no innocent man, or woman, ever be put in jail for a crime he did not commit than it is to punish the guilty.
Also I would want to call into question the validity of the statistics used to make this graph.
As high as 61% of all rape accusations are false. Realistically the number is more than likely 50%. False rape claims are also against the law yet females are almost never prosecuted for them. That is the truth, the cold dark truth about rape in USA/Canada/UK. The feminist falsehood is this 0.2% and sometimes 2% number thrown around. Feminists biggest fear in their ever-pressing ideology are facts and science. False rape accusations out-number real rape accusations. On top of that, when a female claims a male raped her, the legal system changes in most countries where her word is simply enough for conviction. It is not this way for any other crime, or even for when males accuse females of rape. Did you know that men get erections when under great deals of fear or anxiety? Probably not, because you probably think male rape by females is a myth! All of you need to learn the truth about false rape accusations: http://www.cotwa.info/ and http://register-her.com.
“In her book, Brownmiller said that only 2 percent of rape allegations are false, citing findings by the female police in a New York City rape squad. The problem is that while this statistic has been widely repeated, with dutiful mentions of New York-based “research,” no one has ever tracked down its source.”
Ah shoot can’t edit/add to my previous comment. Another site of sources: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.ca/p/prevalence-of-false-rape-claims.html
Falsely accused are those in which it is ‘proven’ that the person was falsely accused. Until they are proven to be falsely accused they are simply accused. The graph assumes perfection in determining one from the other.
Consider for instance that the Cook county states attorney explanation that dna from a different man than the accused was found in the victim was necrophilia.
That the woman was raped by the person HER office charged with the crime. Then after that assault. A convicted multiple offense rapist came across the dead body and had sex with it. That is how she explains why no dna from the accused was found and dna from a rapist was found.
These are the lengths which prosecutors will go to defend bogus charges. They never admit they were wrong.
The graph is flawed.
In case somebody can’t see the graphic or doesn’t feel like counting, this graphic, which applies to the United States, says that out of every 1,000 rapists 70 are reported, 20 face trial, 10 are jailed and 2 are falsely accused.
In America we do not have “innocent,” we have “not guilty.” Let’s make our critiques accurate. Let’s make them reasonable, too. If you want to know why or how so many unreported rapes are represented, do a little homework.
Does the graphic mean to depict one rapist per rape? If so, that would be inaccurate. Work by Lacey and others indicates that more than half of rapists are serial rapists who will rape an average of ten times. Would love to get your answer on this. Thanks.
How come the icons for “Jailed rapists” on the right are smaller than the icons for “rapists” on the left?
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I’m going through your references in more detail. You give this as the reference for your statement “Assuming that 2% of reported rapes are false”: http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf
From that document:
“when more methodologically rigorous research has been conducted, estimates for the percentage of
false reports begin to converge around 2-8%.
“For example, in a multi-site study of eight U.S. communities involved in the “Making a Difference” (or “MAD”) Project, data were
collected by law enforcement agencies for all sexual assault reports received in an 18- 24 month period. Of the 2,059 cases that
were included in the study, 140 (7%) were classified as false. This is particularly noteworthy [explains why the study was well conducted]… To date, the MAD study is the only research conducted in the U.S. to evaluate the percentage of false reports made to law enforcement.”
While the initially quoted range “2-8%” does include your “2%” figure at the low end of the range, the single data point for the US was 7% false. (I should also note that this is the number of cases proven false: more cases may actually be false, but the investigators were unable to tell– it is just as hard to prove that a rape didn’t happen than it is to prove that it did.)
I’m not impressed by the distortions of fact and design used to try to make your case. The numbers are sobering enough; you don’t need to distort them. I appreciate the commenters here fact-checking the data, too. It really does look like 7%, not 2% is a better number to use for the number of false accusations. That seems quite high, and I wonder how it compares to other serious crimes—are 7% of murder accusations false?
The “falsely accused” icons should be outside of the box marked “rapists”, because they’re not rapists. It’s not clear how many of the icons “faced trial” but “not jailed” were innocent, and whether they count as “falsely accused”—some of them, surely. Again, that means they’re not rapists.
The percentage jailed is almost the same as the percentage falsely accused, so that unfortunately provides another reading of the infographic: that for jailed rapist, there’s another man falsely accused; or that accused rapists are as likely to be the victim of a liar as they are to be jailed. Not the conclusion you’re intending to promote!
Is nobody else seeing that if you have 1,000 stick figures, 2% of them are 20, not 2?
The graphic suggests a 0.2% false accusation rate (2 / 1000). It’s not even consistent with the previous feminist rhetoric (2%) which itself was proven to be false (too low!) multiple times.
Also, pretending to know the exact number of unreported rapes is dishonest to say the least, feminist-inspired mumbo-jumbo notwithstanding. The definition of an unreported rape is that it is NOT REPORTED so nobody knows how many of them exist.
Also, people deemed innocent by the courts are NOT rapists, and most of the people accused but not sent to trial are not rapists either.
Also, instilling this false sense of security in actual potential rapists (you’ll get away with it 99% of the time) is actively HARMING women because it encourages potential rapists to commit the crime.
Also, this is unnecessary fearmongering and it displays a stunning hatred of men.
While I think that this infographic is seriously misleading and based on faulty assumptions, I think that your comment improperly represents the implications of of a not guilty verdict.
It is by no means a fair statement that someone not convicted of a rape accusation is not guilty. It is merely a statement regarding whether a trier of fact determined that the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to meet the burden by the prosecutor.
Personal testimony is certainly used as evidence in these cases, so it is often a matter who is more believable in cases where there is no clear exculpatory or damning evidence.
The flip side, of course, is that there are those who are convicted who are not guilty as well as those who are falsely acquitted.
Lastly, if you ever have the urge to say that a court found someone “innocent,” please repress that urge. The court may find you guilty, or it may find that you are not guilty. It never makes affirmative declarations that an individual is “innocent” of a crime.
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This is a great article. I think its safe to say from the pile of evidence, and from thorough articles such as this, with extensive picture diagrams, that most men in existence commit a rape against innocent women at some point in their life. I would also like to note quite seriously that this is overwhelmingly from white males. After all, it is white males who hold a continued out-dated power structure and patriarchy over US society. It is said that 85% of white males exhibit rape tendancys in their lifetime, where as it is just 2.7% for non-white males.
WE MUST ELIMINATE WHITE RAPE CRIME, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE, BY CUTTING THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE AND ELIMINATING THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF “WHITES”
Join me sisters, trans, gays, bisexuals, semi-trans, transmorphic bisexual heteros and other beautiful colorful walks of life. We WILL dismantle the racist, rapist white patriarchy
A nitpick unrelated to the input stats – you have two too-many reported rapists in the graphic, since your two falsely-accused ought to come out of that set.
What’s the source?
It’s funny and revealing how most of the folks questioning the info-graphic and the cited research appear to be male. If it ain’t about you, then why all the hand-wringing?
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thanks for censoring my previous comment, although there was nothing offensive in it, simoly asking for more accuracy…
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I am a rape victim from Europe, and we also have lots of talk about how most of rape accusations are false. So I am happy about the idea of the graphics.
What I don’t agree with, thoug,h is how you have placed the “black men” (“falsely accused”) under “unreported rapists”. They should be under “reported”, “faced trial” or “jailed”.
And what is a false accusation? Is Strauss-Kahn a “brown man” (“reported”) or a “black man” (“falsely accused”)?
From my point of view, my rapist should be a “brown man” (“reported”). My rapist would say, that he should be a “black man” (“falsely accused”).
“Reported” means reported to the police or other authorities, not “told anyone ever.” So, there are many surveys, hospitals, and other media/methods where people can self-identify as a survivor of rape or other sexual assault without it actually being reported.
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So let me get this right according to some of the comments, if the accused isn’t convicted then they are not a rapist?
See my thinking is that if rapist has non-consensual sex with the victim, then they are a rapists. The act makes the person a rapist not whether they are convicted or not.
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Amanda Marcotte points out the many, many flaws in this inforgraphic here:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/08/the_enliven_project_s_false_rape_accusations_infographic_great_intentions.html
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Rape is terrible. That being said, any and all proposed remedies may not be worthy of being used. You are attempting to promote the idea that rape is never the result of any actions taken by a woman. This is ludicrous. It is fallacious to see rape as an either/or scenario. Numerous factors certainly enter into the situation. No one should say any woman deserved to be raped but neither should they say someone who built their house on the sea shore deserved to get washed away.
“The fear of getting falsely accused of rape just doesn’t compare to the fear of an actual rapist getting away with his or her crime.”
If you were looking to destroy your credibility before you started, you did a magnificent job.
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