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Surviving Justice: Realities of Reporting Rape episodes
- 12: "The Title IX Process is Not Interested in Justice" - Campus Sexual Assault, Part 1
Sexual assault on college campuses is a pervasive problem. In part 1 of this 2-parter, learn about Title IX, the Clery Act, and how the reporting process is supposed to work. We cover student-student assault, faculty-student assault, and other kinds of power dynamics on campuses and how they can change the way a student decides to report or not. Learn how universities are often misleading in the amount of sexual assault they report related to the university, and how the system once again fails survivors.
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55 min - 11: The “Backlog”: A Rant
The backlog is a decades-long police failure that they are now unjustly taking credit for fixing. DNA only counts when it is tied to other DNA found in CODIS after years of not arresting rapists, apparently. Victims voices are never enough unless its a 12:1 victim to rapist ratio. Learn about how the backlog harms cases, victims, and keeps communities vulnerable and unsafe. You can learn more at Endthebacklog.org and the documentary "I Am Evidence", from where some of the facts and examples used throughout can be found. The Joyful Heart Foundation is also mentioned throughout, an excellent non-profit that leads the End The Backlog program.
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50 min - 10- "We Respect Their Autonomy & Want Them to Be in Control": The Sexual Assault Examination Kit
What happens during a Sexual Assault Examination to collect and preserve evidence? How much control does a victim have over what happens- from contacting the police to giving blood samples? According to published best practices: all of it. Dr. Julie Valentine explains the history of forensic nurses, what happens during these exams, and dispels common myths around DNA evidence collection. A huge thank you to Julie Valentine, PhD and Forensic Nurse for sharing her insight.
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50 min - 9- "Normal Responses to an Abnormal Situation": The Impact of Trauma
We already talked about trauma and survival instincts in the moment of the assault, but what happens to the brain in the days and weeks after the assault, and long-term? In what ways might it change a person short- and long-term? How does being involved in the criminal reporting system impact that level of trauma? What social impact does this have on the survivor and how can we all be better allies for healing?
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54 min - 8-"You Are Free to Rape, Because We Think It's Pretty Hard to Prove These Cases": Prosecutorial Decision-Making
What factors go into the decisions that prosecutors make about whether or not to try sexual assault cases? Less than 1% of sexual assaults are tried nationally each year. Hear all of the excuses about why that is.
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43 min - 7: "It's a Question of How Honest You're Gonna Be With the Public About How Few of Them You're Solving." - Exceptional Clearance
Exceptional Clearance: What is it? It's supposed to be a last resort option when an arrest can't be made, but in practice, it's used far more frequently than intended. It negatively impacts victims and rape investigations. Listen along with investigative reporter Mark Fahey to learn more.
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33 min - 6: "One Victim is Really Ten": Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault. How common is it? How do we dispel myths that the victim was just 'mistaken'? The answers are scarier than you'd think.
Find Keith Graves, Drug Recognition Expert and all around amazing investigator's website at: https://gravesassociates.com
And Twitter at @Dopecop
He has a very intensive and incredibly useful DFSA course available on his site. Dear Chiefs of Police: Please invest.Support the show
1 hr 1 min - 5: “If We Thought We Had Probable Cause Enough to Prove Beyond a Reasonable Doubt…”: Investigations, Part 4 - No One Knows What 'Probable Cause' Is
What is probable cause? According to the law, a 51% benchmark. According to some captains in police departments, it's somewhere between 70% and beyond a reasonable doubt. In this episode, we talk through investigations from the stand point of probable cause for an arrest, what that looks like, how a case can be presented to a county attorney's office, and the importance of police writing excellent reports. Spoiler alert: they rarely do.
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41 min - 4: "Find Your Justice Elsewhere." - Investigations, Part 3: Follow Up
What does follow-up investigating look like in sexual assault cases? What are expectations we have vs. reality? Helpful hint: the difference is stark. Hear from those who are doing it right, and hear from those who have been failed, once again, by the system.
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43 min - 3: "Is Being Naked in Someone Else's Apartment and Eating, is That Something You Would Normally Do?": Investigations, Pt. 2- Detective Interviews & Confrontation Calls
On to the next phase of reporting rape: being interviewed by a detective. Will he or she have training in how to do this? It's not a requirement, so who knows! Listen to hear what kind of questions detectives might ask, what they are looking for when they ask them, and what a confrontation call is.
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About Surviving Justice: Realities of Reporting Rape
From the publisher's feed
Why report rape through a criminal procedure when there's a 95% chance that the rapist will never even be arrested, and less than a 1% chance than the rapist will be convicted? Why report rape when…
your rapist will hire a P.I. to intimidate and harass you through the process? Why report rape when your detective will refer to a strangulation mark on your neck as a hickey? Why report rape when you'll be met with a culture of hostility and disbelief, and be blamed at every turn for what someone else did to you?--------------------------------------------------This podcast walks listeners through the realities of reporting rape, from start to finish throughout the process: the moment of the crime itself, the decision to report or not, the SANE exam, the initial patrol contact, the interviews with a detective, the subsequent investigation or lack thereof, the nearly inevitable declination of bringing charges forward, and the reasons why the survivor is often left further victimized by the system while the rapist walks free.--------------------------------------------------Hear from survivors, civil attorneys, prosecutors, detectives both retired and not, national organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence, victim advocates, psychologists and more to gain an understanding of why the system doesn't work, what's being done to address it, and what can be done to best support survivors of sexual assault.Go to SurvivingJustice.org to share your story.