Some Good News About Forcible Rape

Mark Kleiman, one of our more distinguished academic analysts of crime has a short post on the incidence of forcible rape as reported in large-scale victimization surveys over the last generation. The news is good: rape is down in that period — way down. From 2.8 per 1000 population in 1979 to 0.5 in 2009. Kleiman comments that he doesn’t know what has caused this dramatic and welcome change, but then adds:

But the theory that pornography causes sex crime would seem to have a hard time surviving comparison with the data.

Well put, professor. Also, love your beard.

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