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Topic Started: Mar 4 2014, 01:49 PM (172 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://sites.duke.edu/dukeresearch/2014/03/03/krause-hopes-to-improve-sexual-misconduct-reporting-process/

Krause Hopes to Improve Sexual Misconduct Reporting Process
By Nonie Arora

Carly Krause is determined to figure out why some students formally report sexual misconduct while others don’t.

[Try asking Kathy Rouse; or those awful players from 2006. Given the treatment innocent victims can expect from Duke--and I include the falsely-accused three in the victim category--it would seem pointless, and even contrary to one's best interest, to report anything to Duke. (MOO)]

Krause is a dual-degree graduate student studying public policy at the Stanford School of Public Policy and the decision sciences at the Fuqua School of Business.

Krause, a California native originally from Los Angeles, received a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley and has been at Duke for three years. At Berkeley, Krause was heavily involved with the women’s community: she was the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) at Berkeley.

When the time came to decide upon a topic for her master’s thesis, Krause decided to reengage with women’s issues and approached the Duke University Women’s Center as a client for her project. From then-director Ada Gregory, Krause learned that the Women’s Center was deeply interested in learning why only some students choose to report sexual misconduct through the formal process. They also wanted to know what factors bring students in to the Women’s Center or keep them from using their services.

[Nobody is using their services? Maybe they are expecting 1/5 of the women to be victims of sexual assault; and when those numbers don't appear--why, it surely can't be that the statistics are wrong, so...]

Krause began digging deeper into these issues. In the past, these types of questions had only been asked through surveys. Krause knew there was only so much information that could be gleaned from a survey without follow-up questions, and that students generally did not answer the free response questions. Instead of a survey, she chose to do in-depth interviews with about twenty students that she sought out by advertising on campus mailing lists and posting fliers in women’s restrooms. Krause said that her data set of twenty interviews meets the criteria for a solid qualitative study. According to Krause, the sample size also sends a signal to the university that this issue is important to the student body.

[Twenty is enough to show this is important to the student body? And what kind of people answered those ads? Are they typical or atypical of the rest of Duke students? If not, what will their answers reflect?]

After her research report is completed this year, it will go to the Women’s Center. From there, a distilled set of recommendations will hopefully be brought before the university administrators, Krause explained. Krause hopes that the Women’s Center will be able to make some of the changes that have come up. These will be things that students want but may not be on the Women’s Center radar quite yet, according to Krause. “I really hope that if there are recommendations that they feel are worthwhile, they will have the resources and manpower to implement them,” Krause said.

“On university side, I hope that administrators understand that the current process is re-traumatizing and disincentives students from coming forward to the point where we are only getting the select few that are so upset and traumatized that this is their only resort. I think that the process is really doing a disservice to the students,” Krause said.

Krause emphasized that when the university designs policies for sexual misconduct there are multiple competing tensions, including protecting students, creating an equitable environment for everyone and promoting the idea of a safe campus environment.
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Quasimodo

Maybe the women's center can do a study on why women make false claims of rape.
I would think everyone at Duke would be aware of why such a study is needed.

And maybe the women's center can either go out of business (it's in violation of Title IX);
or else change it's name to the Men's and Women's center.

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MikeZPU

Quasimodo
Mar 4 2014, 01:51 PM
Maybe the women's center can do a study on why women make false claims of rape.
I would think everyone at Duke would be aware of why such a study is needed.

In all seriousness, that would be an important study.

There have been several false claims of rape reported to police
at my own university over the years. I am specifically referring to cases
where a woman makes a formal complaint of rape or sexual assault
to campus police, where the rapist was NOT someone she knew.
In most of these cases, the alleged rape or assault occurred outside.

But when inconsistencies turn up during police questioning -- when
the police are just trying to get as much information as possible to find
the suspect -- these accusers typically recant their claim of rape or
sexual assault, and admit they made it all up.

Although relatively rare, these have occurred enough that it would
be interesting to find out why certain women do this.
Edited by MikeZPU, Mar 4 2014, 08:04 PM.
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MikeZPU

Quasimodo
Mar 4 2014, 01:51 PM

And maybe the women's center can either go out of business (it's in violation of Title IX);
or else change it's name to the Men's and Women's center.

Yes! Who or where does someone turn to when one has been falsely accused of rape?

What resources are there for people who have been falsely accused of rape?
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Quasimodo

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Yes! Who or where does someone turn to when one has been falsely accused of rape?

What resources are there for people who have been falsely accused of rape?


Maybe universities should be REQUIRED to provide aid and/legal assistance for students accused of
major felonies. (That fulfills the role of en loco parentis; alma mater; etc.)

That would help balance out the free aid (and encouragement to see every sexual advance as
an assault) given to women students by women's centers.

Moreover, for schools with a law school, there is no excuse for a criminal law prof for NOT
taking on a student's case.

I don't believe the financial burden would be overwhelming; and large universities can doubtless
have local attorneys on retainer for just such purposes.

IOW, there is no discrimination here between male and female students; all of them get legal
assistance, automatically.


Edited by Quasimodo, Mar 4 2014, 07:04 PM.
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