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Believe the Victim Campus Sexual Assault

Professors and Legal Experts Call for End to Guilt-Presuming ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org Professors and Legal Experts Call for End to Guilt-Presuming ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations WASHINGTON / February 7, 2018 – Today 137 professors and legal experts are releasing an Open Letter that calls on college administrators, lawmakers, criminal justice agencies, and others to promptly end the use of so-called “victim-centered” investigations. Such investigations are fundamentally flawed [...]
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Believe the Victim

Lesson from the Michigan Sex Abuse Case: Campus Investigators Should Not Be Handling Felony Crimes

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org   Lesson from the Michigan Sex Abuse Case: Campus Investigators Should Not Be Handling Felony Crimes WASHINGTON / February 5, 2018 – In the wake of the January 24 sentencing of Lawrence Nassar on multiple charges of sexual abuse of young gymnasts, SAVE is calling for an end to the practice of [...]
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#MeToo Sexual Harassment

Women Around the World Warn of the Excesses of the #MeToo Movement

PRESS RELEASE Email: info@saveservices.org Women Around the World Warn of the Excesses of the #MeToo Movement WASHINGTON / January 29, 2018 – Numerous leading women around the world – including media personalities, professors, and commentators – have spoken out against the excesses of the #MeToo movement. Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) has compiled these statements [...]
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Believe the Victim

Junk Science Behind Trauma-Informed Theories

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments Trauma-informed behavioral theories of sexual assault originated with anecdotal reports of how victims of forcible rape responded to their experiences. The concept of “rape trauma syndrome” (RTS) stemmed from a 1974 survey of 92 forcible rape victims’ self-reported symptoms.[1] Authors of the survey classified the symptoms into two stages: “fear or [...]
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Believe the Victim

‘Believe the Victim’? The Biological Reason Why Accusers Aren’t Always Telling the Truth

Harry W. Power, PhD Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Ecology, Rutgers University In recent years there have been hundreds of cases across the country of men having allegedly sexually assaulted women where there was insufficient objective evidence to determine whether a crime had occurred, and in some cases, whether any kind of sex or even encounter [...]
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Believe the Victim

‘Believe the Victim’ Investigations Reveal a Callous Disregard for the Truth

Michael Conzachi One of citizens’ most important due process right is the right to a fair and unbiased investigation. For a number of years, activists have promoted a concept they refer to as “Believe the Victim,” to be utilized by law enforcement personnel when they respond to charges of sexual assault or domestic violence. Traditionally, [...]
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Campus Title IX Victim-Centered Investigations

PR: SAVE Calls for Major Reforms to Campus ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations

Contact: Nasheia Conway Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: nconway@saveservices.org Following USC ‘motherf—er’ Case, SAVE Calls for Major Reforms to Campus ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations WASHINGTON / January 12, 2018 – Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White recently issued a ruling regarding a sexual assault case in which she concluded the university’s investigative procedures lacked fairness and impartiality. Based on this case and [...]
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Domestic Violence Violence Against Women Act

PR: Report: DV Programs May be Shortchanging Women

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Nasheia Conway Email: nconway@saveservices.org Report: “Domestic Violence Programs May Be Shortchanging Women” WASHINGTON / December 13, 2017 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments is today issuing a report that documents the ineffectiveness and unresponsiveness of the nation’s domestic violence programs, and reveals some of these policies may be harmful to women. SAVE calls [...]
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Accusing U. Campus

PR: SAVE Calls for an End to ‘Kangaroo Courts’

Contact: Chris Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry@saveservices.org With Growing Bipartisan Support for Campus Due Process, SAVE Calls for an End to ‘Kangaroo Courts’ WASHINGTON / December 4, 2017 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling for the restoration of fairness and due process in campus sexual assault cases. SAVE is issuing this appeal in light [...]
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Campus Sexual Assault

PR: To Reduce Lawsuit Risk, Administrators Need to Implement New OCR Sexual Assault Guidelines

Contact: Chris Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry@saveservices.org To Reduce Lawsuit Risk, Administrators Need to Implement New OCR Sexual Assault Guidelines WASHINGTON / October 11, 2017 – Since the issuance of the federal Dear Colleague Letter in 2011, nearly 200 lawsuits have been filed by accused students alleging lack of due process. (1) Implementation of the Department [...]