An examination of rape studies and the effect on the society and its legal system Oliver B. Johnson III University Of Pittsburgh Update Many of the sources credited in this paper use outdated crime reports. Without damaging the credibility of the various authors, included in the beginning of this paper is an update on all relevant crime statistics. The source of the updates come from the FBI’s national crime reports and include up to 1998, …showed first 75 words of 2336 total…

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