CANDIDA SAUNDERS candida.saunders@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth: reconceptualizing false allegations of rape
Saunders, Candida L.
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Abstract
There is a longstanding dispute between criminal justice professionals on the one hand and researchers and commentators on the other regarding the prevalence of false allegations of rape. Prevalence, however, is contingent upon definition. If the various protagonists’ definitions of a ‘false allegation’ do not coincide, it is virtually inevitable that their estimates will diverge. Drawing on original empirical data from in-depth research interviews conducted with police and Crown Prosecutors, this article explores the following important but much neglected question: When criminal justice professionals tell us that false allegations of rape are common, what precisely are they talking about? What ‘counts’ as a false allegation?
Citation
Saunders, C. L. (2012). The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth: reconceptualizing false allegations of rape. British Journal of Criminology, 52(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azs036
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 1, 2012 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 30, 2012 |
Publication Date | Nov 1, 2012 |
Deposit Date | May 9, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | May 9, 2018 |
Journal | British Journal of Criminology |
Print ISSN | 0007-0955 |
Electronic ISSN | 1464-3529 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 6 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azs036 |
Keywords | false allegations, rape, prevalence, no-criming, witness veracity, credibility |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/711608 |
Publisher URL | https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/52/6/1152/347356 |
Contract Date | May 9, 2018 |
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