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Less than one-fifth of reported rapes and sexual assaults lead to arrests

  • Written by Melissa Morabito, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Less than one-fifth of reported rapes and sexual assaults lead to arrestsProtesters attended Harvey Weinstein's first day of trial.lev radin/Shutterstock.comLess than one-fifth of reported rapes and sexual assaults lead to arrestsCC BY-ND

As experts in criminologyand the justice system, we were surprised to learn that a jury voted to convict Harvey Weinstein on two counts of rape and sexual assault.

This surprise was based on our more than a decade of research on the attrition of sexual...

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