FSRN FBI Updates Rape Definitions to Include Male Victims and Date Rape
Channel: Reddebrek
Date: 2012-01-07

The Department of Justice announced this morning that it is expanding the FBI's definition of rape, which has been on the books since 1929. For the first time, the FBI's statistics will include people of any gender, instances of date rape and statutory rape, and rape with an object. Women's rights advocates  -- who have long pushed for the move -- say the revised definition will lead to a more accurate accounting of incidents of rape, but that it still must be accompanied by a cultural shift, so that more rape survivors come forward and report the crime. FSRN's Alice Ollstein reports from Washington.

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