Politics

Is the Campus Rape Crisis Overblown?

SEX CRIMES

The finding that one in five women are sexually assaulted in college may not be accurate.

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Christine Baker/Landov

The finding that one in five women are sexually assaulted in college is as widely known as it is startling. Countless media reports repeat and recycle the alarming statistic, and it headlined the initial report introduced by Vice President Biden from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from...

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