October 28, 2013: Letter to Katie Ray-Jones, President of The National Domestic Violence Hotline Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.thehotline.org/is-this-abuse/statistics/. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 3 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Organization: The National DV Hotline F Name [...]
December 6, 2013: Letter to Hon. David E. Stucki, President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.ncjfcj.org/sites/default/files/DV_FactSheet_2012_0.pdf. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 1 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Grade Organization: [...]
Dec. 26, 2013: Letter to Carol Kurzig, President of AVON Foundation for Women Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.avonfoundation.org/assets/dv-resource-guide.pdf. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 1 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Organization: AVON Foundation for Women F Name of [...]
Half-Truths and Tall Tales Effective programs rely on good science and factual information. Unfortunately, many domestic violence groups have spun a web of misleading claims, half-truths, and falsehoods. The biggest myth of all is the claim that men indulge in domestic violence as anexercise in patriarchal privilege. The corollary is the notion that women are incapable of abuse, or at least [...]
Take Rape Seriously‘If You Keep Repeating a Myth, Will People Begin to Believe It?’ Abuse is a major problem in our society. Unfortunately, abuse myths have now become widespread — some claims are so exaggerated as to be farcical. These factoids are harmful to victims, to society, and to the credibility of the entire abuse-reduction effort. These myths have a common [...]
Consensus: Campus Kangaroo Courts are Harming Survivors SUCCESS! On May 6, 2020, the Department of Education released its new Title IX regulation. The regulation, which supports both complainants and the accused, took effect on August 14, 2020. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In 2011 the Department of Education released its Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual violence. The Letter launched a bold [...]
Fallacies of Victim-Centered Methods "Victim-centered" methods -- also known as trauma-informed or “Start By Believing” -- presume that the complainant has experienced significant physical and psychological trauma. As a result, victim-centered investigations emphasize the collection of evidence supportive of the complainant and discourage the collection of exculpatory evidence. Victim-centered investigations represent a departure from ethical standards of [...]
#MeToo? #NotMe! UPDATE: In 2018, Joe Biden announced, “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.” But in a March 2020 interview, Tara Reade claimed she had been assaulted by Biden in [...]
Gender Warriors Play On Popular Passions in Quest for Mob Justice SUCCESS! On May 6, 2020, the Department of Education released its new Title IX regulation. The regulation, which will support both complainants and the accused, take effect on August 14, 2020. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ At several points in our nation’s history, notions of due process have been overcome [...]
‘Start By Listening’ or ‘Start By Believing’? The right to due process is a constitutionally guaranteed right afforded to Americans. Criminal investigations that are impartial, fair, and honest are one of the hallmarks of due process. But so-called “victim-centered” investigations threaten to turn adjudications in the criminal justice system and on campus into a sham, resulting [...]
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