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Assessing Police Classifications of Sexual Assault Reports: A Meta-Analysis of False Reporting Rates

Review of “Assessing Police Classifications of Sexual Assault Reports: A Meta-Analysis of False Reporting Rates” (Ferguson & Malouff, 2016) One of the problems in dealing with accusations of sexual assault Continue Reading

Posted On : September 22, 2018 Published By : lighthouse
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Mistrial in the Court of Public Opinion: the strange case of Robin Camp

In the midst of a growing moral panic around sexual assault, one of the targets has been sexist “dinosaur” judges who fall prey to “rape myths.” In Canada, former Alberta Continue Reading

Posted On : July 7, 2018 Published By : Karin Litzcke
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Sam Harris v Jordan Peterson Debate Summary

On June 24th, 2018, I attended the second evening of a debate between Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris which has not been made available online. People are desperate for a Continue Reading

Posted On : June 25, 2018 Published By : Diana Davison
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The Danger of Anonymity and Secret Courts

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” ~ Thomas Jefferson The role of the press in sexual assault cases is Continue Reading

Posted On : June 12, 2018 Published By : Enya Leger
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State Funded Kangaroo Courts on Campus

“We will now deliberate and return with a guilty verdict.” ~Judith Draper, 3rd Rock from the Sun On February 27th, the Canadian federal government published the 2018 Budget. Titled “Equality and Continue Reading

Posted On : April 18, 2018 Published By : Enya Leger
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The Myth of Collective Male Guilt

“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” ~ Thomas Szasz In response to the #MeToo movement, male “allies” have come up with some hashtags of their Continue Reading

Posted On : March 22, 2018 Published By : Enya Leger
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Misleading Justice With Sexual Assault Statistics

“My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor Recently, the Continue Reading

Posted On : March 1, 2018 Published By : Enya Leger
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The Epistemology of #Believing

“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined.” ~ Carl Sagan The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines epistemology as “the study of knowledge and justified Continue Reading

Posted On : February 8, 2018 Published By : Enya Leger
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The Public trial of Aziz Ansari

In her Atlantic article, “The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari,” Caitlin Flanagan aptly described the recent sexual assault accusation against Ansari as “3,000 words of revenge porn.” Having been through a Continue Reading

Posted On : January 17, 2018 Published By : Mustafa Ururyar
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False Allegations in Vulnerable Groups

In her Atlantic article, “The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari,” Caitlin Flanagan aptly described the recent sexual assault accusation against Ansari as “3,000 words of revenge porn.” Having been through a Continue Reading

Posted On : January 17, 2018 Published By : lighthouse

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