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100 Decisions and Counting: Disregard of Due Process in Sex Cases is Costing Colleges Millions

Contact: Chris Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry@saveservices.org 100 Decisions and Counting: Disregard of Due Process in Sex Cases is Costing Colleges Millions WASHINGTON / June 12, 2018 – Last Friday the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous due process ruling against Boston College. The judges upheld a student’s claim that the school failed in [...]
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Campus Due Process

PR: Effort to Restore Due Process on Campus Gains Traction

Contact: Christopher Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry-at-saveservices.org Sexual Assault: Effort to Restore Due Process on Campus Gains Traction WASHINGTON / May 14, 2018 – Over the past seven months, leading liberal and conservative voices have worked to restore due process and fairness in campus sexual assault policies. Such initiatives reveal a growing trend being supported by lawmakers on [...]
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“Trauma-Informed” and its Orwellian Perversion

Maarten van Swaay The phrase ‘trauma-informed’ has a worthy provenance;  it has been used for quite some time to describe approaches used to improve communication with children who had suffered from known traumatic events, such as accidents, fire, death of family members, divorce, etc. Such children may withdraw into a shell, possibly to protect themselves [...]
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PR: 23 Cornell Law Profs Support Suspended Student in Sexual Assault Appeal

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org 23 Cornell Law Profs Support Suspended Student in Sexual Assault Appeal WASHINGTON / April 3, 2018 – Twenty-three Cornell Law School professors have requested to file an Amicus Brief in support of a student who was accused of campus sexual assault and later suspended. The Cornell statement is the fourth statement from [...]
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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

PR: Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, Joined by Dozens of Federal and State Judges, Calls for Due Process in Campus Sex Proceedings

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, Joined by Dozens of Federal and State Judges, Calls for Due Process in Campus Sex Proceedings WASHINGTON / February 20, 2018 – In a recent interview for The Atlantic, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg affirmed the need for due process in campus sexual assault proceedings. In addition, Ginsburg [...]
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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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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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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’? 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 [...]