CAMP: Countering Abuse Misinformation Project Relying on quick-response, high-visibility media and advocacy campaigns, SAVE’s Countering Abuse Misinformation Project — CAMP — seeks to promote the dissemination of accurate information and reform biased policies. CURRENT: Stop the Biden Title IX Take-Over PREVIOUS: Campaign for Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence Victim-Centered: Death of Due Process Rein in the [...]
Methods Stop Abusive and Violent Environments commissioned a national telephone survey of American households. Conducted by Political Research of Centreville, VA, the surveys utilized a computer-activated interactive telephone technology with a pre-recorded human voice. The technology requires all questions be phrased so they can be answered with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ response. Calls were placed to 9,876 landline [...]
Findings Percentage of persons answering ‘yes’….. Group No. of Respondents % of Respondents Heard of Affirmative Consent Law? Support Ongoing Consent? Support Affirmative, Conscious and Voluntary Consent? Gov’t Have Authority? All 2,081 100.0% 14.2% 40.7% 55.4% 14.4% Sex: Male 402 55.6% 21.6% 36.8% 49.3% 15.9% Female 321 44.4% 17.1% 44.5% 63.2% 12.8% [...]
Overview SAVE commissioned a national opinion poll designed to probe persons’ views on Affirmative Consent policies. The survey was conducted October 27 – 28, 2014. Over 600 persons participated in the telephone poll. The respondents consisted of 55.6% males and 44.4% females. Many respondents agreed that consent to sex should be conscious, voluntary, and ongoing. But 6 [...]
AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT: ‘Your guess is as good as mine’ Years ago students at Antioch College in Ohio came up with a novel approach to addressing date rape. The idea was to require students to express their “clear verbal consent” before moving to a new level of sexual intimacy. The affirmative consent policy inspired a now-famous Saturday Night [...]
Ten Myths of Campus Sexual Assault Persons have made various claims about campus sexual assault that have no basis in fact. Commentators worry these statements are being used to create a rape “frenzy” and “panic” to compel lawmakers and campus administrators to institute flawed policies. Following are 10 common myths about campus sexual assault: MYTH: One in Five [...]
Rape Culture: The idea that rape is commonplace and widely condoned is absurd Some persons have come to accept the notion that “rape culture” is widespread in the United States. “Rape culture” implies that rape is both commonplace and widely condoned — a supposition that is false, indeed absurd. The number of rapes among college-age females has fallen dramatically in recent years, [...]
Myths and Falsehoods Numerous myths and falsehoods surround the campus sexual assault issue: Ten Myths Rape Hoax Rape Culture Affirmative Consent Expansive Definitions Climate Surveys The Hunting Ground: A Cinematic Fraud
Campus Sex Tribunals: A Failed Experiment As a result of the 2011 Department of Education Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual assault, victims say their complaints are not being handled appropriately, lawsuits are being filed by expelled students alleging lack of due process, and university administrators say they are being placed in an untenable situation. Harvard law professor Elizabeth [...]
A number of states have enacted campus due process laws. These laws vary by their scope and level of detail: BROAD SCOPE: Arizona §15-1866 (2018): (a) The right to receive advanced written notice of the allegations. (b) The right to review the evidence in support of the allegations. (c) The right to confront witnesses who testify [...]