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Meanwhile, the incidence of reported rape is increasing at a startling rate...
...California, according to the state police, there is a sexual assault on a woman on the average of once every 20 minutes. Says Massachusetts Representative Jon Rotenberg, who was active in pushing through two rape-reform bills in the state legislature: "The threat of rape affects women of all ages who are afraid to go out at night, to live alone, to ride the subway or wait...
Rewriting Laws. The fact that more women are living alone, going to work at odd hours and are generally more vulnerable accounts for many attacks. Most rapes occur in the black ghettos. In the most recent national survey, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence found in 1967 that in 17 cities, 60% of rapes were committed by black men against black women, 30% by white men against white women, 10% by black men against white women and .3% by white men against black women. These figures may be shifting, however; in Philadelphia, the Center for Rape...
What to do about these attacks of violence? Spurred by police statistics and women's rights groups, some state legislatures are now rewriting their rape laws. To convict a rapist, most states require evidence to support the victim's claim: cuts, bruises or torn clothing, a medical report stating physical penetration and sometimes even an eyewitness who can identify the assailant. Believing that such rules were making it too tough to get convictions, Connecticut and New York recently repealed them...
Women's groups generally applaud the change, but in a new book, The Charge Is Rape, Journalist Gerald Astor warns that repeal of corroboration laws may not help. "The law can say what it pleases the legislators to have it say, but the jury will decide whom to believe...