According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are…

“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be substantially untrue.…

— Michael Salter

“Finally, another large-scale study [of false rape allegations] was conducted in Australia, with the 850 rapes reported to the Victoria police between 2000 and…

— David Lisak

“When New York City created a special Rape Analysis Squad commanded by police- women, the female police officers found that only 2 percent of…

— Susan Brownmiller

“The largest and most rigorous study that is currently available in this area is the third one commissioned by the British Home Office (Kelly,…

— David Lisak

If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.

— Tim Kaine

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces…

— Michael Wilbon

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“Of course false-rape allegations have happened. My friend Astra Taylor points out that the most dramatic examples in this country were when white men…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Summary There is a small group of cases, initially treated as rape where there is no evidence of an assault: primarily where a third…

— Liz Kelly

“The heated public discourse about the frequency of false rape allegations often makes no reference to actual research. When the discourse does make reference…

— David Lisak

“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions by claiming…

— Charles L. Whitfield

“The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999)…

— Shannon N. Baugher

“Police recording of false allegations of rape: "The data on the pro formas limit the extent to which one can assess the police designations,…

— Liz Kelly

“Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather.”

— S. Caroline Taylor

“- Rape is a unique crime, representing both a physical and psychological violation. More than with any other crime the victim can experience reporting…

— Liz Kelly