The Callus: I was thinking about this thing and I am being sincere and legitimate so please no hate
How do we know that rape is under-reported, you know, If it’s not reported. Does that mean under-reported to police, or under-reported altogether.
I’ve never understood how we can say things like 70 percent of rapes (or whatever!) are not reported…if they aren’t reported!
Somebody (say, Zombie Cuddle) could probably get this better than I could—though I think we also have a set of surveys that some of that data comes from. As mentioned, there are always questions about how good the data was and so on—though I think even a conservative estimate will conclude that date rape and child sex abuse are dramatically under reported.
(via thecallus)
